Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell DL4300 Appliance Owner's Manual
- About your Dell DL4300 Appliance
- Documentation matrix
- Technical specifications
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Pre-operating system management applications
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Front bezel (optional)
- System cover
- Inside the system
- Cooling shroud
- Hard-drive tray assembly
- Removing the hard drive tray
- Installing the hard drive tray
- Removing a hard drive blank from a hard drive carrier
- Installing a hard drive blank into a hard drive carrier
- Removing a hard drive carrier from the hard drive tray
- Installing a hard drive carrier into the hard drive tray
- Removing a hard drive from a hard drive carrier
- Removing the hard drive backplane from the hard drive tray
- Installing the hard drive backplane in the hard drive tray
- Cooling fans
- Cooling-fan assembly
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- PCIe card holder
- Cable retention bracket
- Integrated storage controller card
- Expansion cards and expansion card riser
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Removing an expansion card from expansion card riser 2 or 3
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser 2 or 3
- Removing an expansion card from the expansion card riser 1
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser 1
- Removing the riser 1 blank
- Installing the riser 1 blank
- Removing expansion card risers
- Installing expansion card risers
- Internal dual SD module (optional)
- Network daughter card
- System battery
- Power supply units
- Hard drives
- Removing a hot swappable hard drive
- Installing a hot swappable hard drive
- Hard drive backplane
- Control panel
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Using system diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Troubleshooting your system
- Safety first — for you and your system
- Troubleshooting system startup failure
- Troubleshooting external connections
- Troubleshooting the video subsystem
- Troubleshooting a USB device
- Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (USB XML configuration)
- Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (Laptop connection)
- Troubleshooting a serial I/O device
- Troubleshooting a NIC
- Troubleshooting a wet system
- Troubleshooting a damaged system
- Troubleshooting the system battery
- Troubleshooting power supply units
- Troubleshooting cooling problems
- Troubleshooting cooling fans
- Troubleshooting system memory
- Troubleshooting an SD card
- Troubleshooting a hard drive
- Troubleshooting a storage controller
- Troubleshooting expansion cards
- Troubleshooting processors
- System messages
- Getting help
Option Description
Option Description
Brand Specifies the brand name.
Level 2 Cache Specifies the total L2 cache.
Level 3 Cache Specifies the total L3 cache.
Number of Cores Specifies the number of cores per processor.
SATA Settings
You can use the SATA Settings screen to view the SATA settings of SATA devices and enable RAID on
your system.
Viewing SATA Settings
To view the SATA Settings screen, perform the following steps:
1. Turn on, or restart your system.
2. Press F2 immediately after you see the following message:
F2 = System Setup
NOTE: If your operating system begins to load before you press F2, wait for the system to finish
booting, and then restart your system and try again.
3. On the System Setup Main Menu screen, click System BIOS.
4. On the System BIOS screen, click SATA Settings.
SATA Settings details
The SATA Settings screen details are explained as follows:
Option
Description
Embedded SATA Enables the embedded SATA option to be set to Off, ATA, AHCI, or RAID modes.
This option is set to AHCI by default.
Security Freeze
Lock
Sends Security Freeze Lock command to the Embedded SATA drives during POST.
This option is applicable only for ATA and AHCI modes.
Write Cache Enables or disables the command for Embedded SATA drives during POST.
Port A Sets the drive type of the selected device. For Embedded SATA settings in ATA
mode, set this field to Auto to enable BIOS support. Set it to OFF to turn off BIOS
support.
For AHCI or RAID mode, BIOS support is always enabled.
Option Description
Model Specifies the drive model of the selected device.
Drive Type Specifies the type of drive attached to the SATA port.
Capacity Specifies the total capacity of the hard drive. This field is
undefined for removable media devices such as optical
drives.
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