Table 5-1. Menu Navigation Keys (continued)

Notation

Meaning and Use

Example

 

 

 

down-arrow

Use the down-arrow key to move to the lower menu

Virtual Disk 1

key

items within a menu or to a lower level menu. You

 

 

can also use the down-arrow key to open a menu list

Virtual Disk 4

 

in a popup window, such as the stripe element size

 

 

menu, and select a setting. Word wrap is supported.

 

 

 

 

<Enter>

After you highlight a menu item, press <Enter> to

Select Add New

 

select that item. An options menu for the menu item

VD and press

 

opens. It applies to only certain menu items, such as

<Enter> to

 

Virtual Disk #. In a list of options for that item,

create a new

 

such as the write policy for a virtual disk, highlight a

virtual disk.

 

setting, such as Write-Through, and press <Enter>

 

 

to select it.

 

<Esc>

After you expand a pop-up window, press <Esc> to

 

close the window. You can continue to press <Esc>

 

to exit the BIOS Configuration Utility

 

(<Ctrl><R>).

Press <Esc> to return to the VD Mgmt screen.

<Tab>

Press <Tab> to move the cursor to the next control

Press <Tab> to

 

on a dialog box or page.

move the cursor

 

 

to the next

 

 

parameter you

 

 

want to change.

 

 

 

<Shift>

Press <Shift><Tab> to move the cursor to the

Press

<Tab>

previous control on a dialog or page.

<Shift><Tab>

 

 

to move the

 

 

cursor from Sort

 

 

By to the

 

 

previously

 

 

selected PD in

 

 

the PD Mgmt

 

 

screen

 

 

 

<Ctrl>

Press <Ctrl><N> to move to the next menu screen

Press

<N>

among the main menu screens: VD Mgmt, PD

<Ctrl><N> on

 

Mgmt, Ctrl Mgmt, and Foreign View.

the VD Mgmt

 

 

screen to move to

 

 

the PD Mgmt

 

 

screen.

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H310, H710, H710P, H810 specifications

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