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BIOS Configuration Utility and Dell Manager
Dell™PowerEdge™ExpandableRAIDController4/SCand4/DCUser'sGuide
Starting the BIOS Configuration Utility
Starting Dell Manager
Using Dell Manager in Red Hat Linux GUI Mode
Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives
Designating Drives as Hot Spares
Creating Arrays and Logical Drives
Drive Roaming
Initializing Logical Drives
Deleting Logical Drives
Clearing Physical Drives
Rebuilding Failed Hard Drives
Using a Pre-loaded SCSI Drive "As-is"
FlexRAID Virtual Sizing
Checking Data Consistency
Reconstructing Logical Drives
Exiting the Configuration Utility
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The BIOS Configuration Utility configures disk arrays and logical drives. Because the utility resides in the RAID controller BIOS, its operation is independent of
the operating systems on your system.
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Dell™Managerisacharacter-based, non-GUI utility that changes policies, and parameters, and monitors RAID systems. Dell Manager runs under Red Hat
Linux, Advanced Server, Enterprise.
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Use these utilities to do the following:
l Create hot spare drives.
l Configure physical arrays and logical drives.
l Initialize one or more logical drives.
l Access controllers, logical drives, and, physical drives individually.
l Rebuild failed hard drives.
l Verify that the redundancy data in logical drives using RAID level 1, 5, 10, or 50 is correct.
l Reconstruct logical drives after changing RAID levels or adding a hard drive to an array
l Select a host controller to work on.
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Starting the BIOS Configuration Utility
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When the host computer boots, hold the <Ctrl> key and press the <M> key when a BIOS banner such as the following appears:
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HA -0 (Bus X Dev X) Type: PERC 4 Standard FWx.xx SDRAM=128MB
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Battery Module is Present on Adapter
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1 Logical Drive found on the Host Adapter
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Adapter BIOS Disabled, No Logical Drives handled by BIOS
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