6 BIOS Configuration Utility................................................................................62
Entering the BIOS Configuration Utility.............................................................................................62
Exiting the Configuration Utility......................................................................................................... 62
Menu navigation controls...................................................................................................................63
Setting up virtual disks........................................................................................................................64
BIOS Configuration Utility menu options..........................................................................................66
Virtual disk management..............................................................................................................66
Virtual disk actions........................................................................................................................ 68
Physical disk management (PD Mgmt).........................................................................................69
Physical disk actions......................................................................................................................69
Rebuild...........................................................................................................................................70
Controller management (Ctrl Mgmt)........................................................................................... 70
Controller management actions...................................................................................................71
Foreign configuration view...........................................................................................................72
Virtual Disk Management....................................................................................................................72
Creating virtual disks..................................................................................................................... 72
Selecting virtual disk parameters.................................................................................................. 73
Initializing virtual disks...................................................................................................................73
Checking data consistency...........................................................................................................74
Running a data consistency check...............................................................................................74
Importing or clearing foreign configurations using the VD mgmt menu...................................74
Importing or clearing foreign configurations using the foreign configuration view screen......75
Break mirror...................................................................................................................................76
Managing preserved cache...........................................................................................................77
Managing dedicated hot spares....................................................................................................78
Deleting virtual disks......................................................................................................................78
Deleting disk groups......................................................................................................................79
Clearing the configuration............................................................................................................79
Physical Disk Management.................................................................................................................79
Setting LED blinking...................................................................................................................... 79
Creating global hot spares............................................................................................................80
Removing global or dedicated hot spares...................................................................................80
Replacing an online physical disk.................................................................................................80
Restrictions and limitations...........................................................................................................81
Stopping background initialization...............................................................................................81
Performing a manual rebuild of an individual physical disk.........................................................81
Controller Management..................................................................................................................... 82
Enabling boot support.................................................................................................................. 82
Enabling boot support for a BIOS-enabled controller................................................................82
Enabling BIOS stop on error.........................................................................................................83
Disabling BIOS stop on error........................................................................................................83
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