
Empty drive bays in the server must be filled by empty drive carriers or empty drive trays, as appropriate. With the bezel removed, install the appropriate carrier, then replace the bezel by snapping it into place on the front of the server. Empty drive carriers for unused drive bays are included with your server.
Configuring your onboard RAID solutionsYour server comes equipped with an onboard, chipset SCSI RAID solution, which supports RAID levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring). The onboard RAID solutions can be enabled in the BIOS (page 154) and configured by launching the appropriate RAID BIOS console during the boot process.
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Configuring the onboard SCSI RAID solution
To launch the SCSI RAID BIOS console:
1 | Restart your server. |
2 | Press F2 when the Gateway logo screen appears during startup. The BIOS Setup utility |
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3 | From the Main BIOS menu, select the Advanced menu. |
4 | Select the PCI Configuration |
5 | For the Onboard SCSI option, click Enabled. |
6 | Exit the BIOS Setup utility. |
7 | Restart your server. |
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