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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines..........................................................1-1
1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines.....................................................................1-1
1-2 General Safety Guidelines...............................................................1-1
1-3 An Important Note to Users.............................................................1-1
Chapter 2 Connectors, Jumpers and Indicators............... 2-1
2-1 Front Connectors and Pin Definitions............................................2-1
Internal SAS Connectors........................................................................ 2-2
Active LED Connector.............................................................................2-2
2-2 Front Jumper Locations and Pin Definitions.................................2-3
2-3 LED Indicators...................................................................................2-4
2-4 RAID Minimum Drive Requirements..............................................2-5
Chapter 3 RAID Modes, Firmware and Drivers...................3-1
3-1 RAID Modes.......................................................................................3-1
3-2 Getting Firmware Downloads..........................................................3-2
3-3 Flashing Firmware.............................................................................3-2
3-4 Downloading RAID Mode Drivers...................................................3-2
3-5 Activating RAID Modes in OPROM BIOS.....................................3-3

Chapter 4 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility..............4-1

4-1 Performing a Quick Configuration ..................................................4-1
4-2 Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives ..........................................4-1
Starting the MegaRAID BIOS CU...........................................................4-2
Using Easy Configuration.......................................................................4-2
Using New Configuration and View/Add Configuration...........................4-4
Creating a Global Hotspare Drive...........................................................4-6
Initializing Virtual Drives..........................................................................4-6
First Initialization Method.....................................................................4-7
Second Initialization Method................................................................4-7
4-3 Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead Policies...4-8
4-4 Rebuilding a Drive.............................................................................4-9
4-5 Hot Plug Support.............................................................................4-10
4-6 Checking Data Consistency ..........................................................4-11
4-7 Viewing and Changing Device Properties...................................4-12