3. BIOS CONFIGURATION
3. BIOS CONFIGURATION
3.1 Basic BIOS screen information
After you install the
Create RAID Set
Delete RAID Set
Rebuild RAID1 Set
Resolve Conflicts
Low level Format
Logical Drive Info
The top right half shows direction and guiding information.
The bottom left half of the screen displays the information of physical drives. The bottom right half lists logical drives’ information.
There are the command keys: Arrows up and down are Select Keys ESC takes the user to the previous menu Enter selects the user’s choice
3.2 BIOS Function
3.2.1 Creating RAID Set
1.Select “Create RAID Set.”
2.Choose from the list of “RAID 0”, “RAID 1”, RAID 10” and “SPARE DRIVE”.
3.If the “RAID 0” is chosen, the utility will ask you to select how many drives for the raid0 set. You can choose from the list of numbers which is according to how many drives are connected to the computer. Then you can choose from Auto Configuration and Manual Configuration. Finally, the utility will ask “Are You Sure?” before completing the configuration.
4.If you select the second or third option, you’ll be asked to choose from Auto Configuration and Manual Configuration. Finally, the utility will ask “Are You Sure?” before completing the configuration. Afterward the utility will ask “Are You Sure?” before completing the configuration.
5.If the RAID 1 set has already been built, you can choose “SPARE DRIVE” to set a hot spare drive as a backup for the existing RAID 1. The utility will ask “Are You Sure?” before completing the configuration.
3.2.2 Deleting RAID Set
1.To remove one or more RAID sets, select “Delete RAID Set.”
2.Select desired set and press Y when asked “Are You Sure?”
3.3.3 Rebuilding RAID1 set
If a hard disk is damaged when running RAID 1, remove the damaged HDD, connect a workable one, rebuild the array and restore data by selecting Rebuild Mirrored set. This can be done either online or offline.
3.3.4 Resolving Conflict
When a RAID set is created, the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information (Primary Channel, Secondary Channel). If, after a disk failure, the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set (or used in another system), it may have conflicting metadata, specifically in reference to the drive connection information. If so, this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt, In order for the RAID set to function properly; this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata. To resolve this, select “Resolve Conflict” and the correct metadata, including the correct drive connection information; will be written to the replacement disk.
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