AOC-USAS-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual
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Notes
To force a drive online or offline, follow these steps:
1. On the MANAGEMENT menu, select OBJECTS J PHYSICAL DRIVE.
2. Highlight a physical drive that is a member of an array and press ENTER.
3. Select FORCE OFFLINE or FORCE ONLINE from the menu.
If the drive was online, its status changes to FAIL. If it was offline, its status changes
to ONLIN.
4-9 Configuring a Bootable Virtual Drive
The default boot virtual drive is LD 0. If you change the boot drive to another virtual
drive, the BIOS and the CU will preserve this change. However, if you delete the new
boot virtual drive, you must be sure to configure another virtual drive for booting. The
MegaRAID BIOS CU will not automatically select a different boot virtual drive.
Follow these steps to configure a bootable virtual drive:
1. On the MANAGEMENT menu, select CONFIGURE J SELECT BOOT DRIVE.
2. Select a virtual drive from the list to be the designated boot drive.
4-10 Deleting a Virtual Drive
The MegaRAID BIOS CU allows you to delete any single virtual drive defined in the
configuration (sometimes referred to as random deletion).
To delete a specified virtual drive, follow these steps:
1. Select OBJECTS J VIRTUAL DRIVE.
2. Highlight the virtual drive that you want to delete and press DELETE.
3. Select YES when the confirmation message appears.
4-11 Clearing a Storage Configuration
WARNING: Before you delete a virtual drive, be sure to back up all the data you
want to keep.
WARNING: Before you clear a storage configuration, be sure to back up all the
data you want to keep.