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Intel® RAID Software User Guide 60
4. Select Manage Volume.
The Manage Volume window appears.
5. Select Dele
te Volume.
A menu window appears.
6. Either press Y to delete the volume, or pre
ss N to cancel the deletion process.
After a pause, the utility deletes the volume.
If there is another remaining volume
and one or two hot spare disks, the BIOS checks the hot spare disks to determine if
they are compatible with the remaining volume. If they are not compatible (too
small or wrong disk type), the BIOS deletes them also.
6.2.4.5 Locating Disk Drives in a Volume
You can use the SAS3 BIOS CU to locate and identify a specific physical disk drive in a
disk enclosure by flashing the drive’s LED. You can also flash the LEDs of all the disk
drives in a RAID volume, if they are in a disk enclosure.
When you add a disk drive to a new mirrored volume, the LED on the disk drive starts
flashing. The LED stops flashing when you finish creating the volume.
To locate disk drives by flashing their LEDs, follow these steps:
1. Select the desired SAS-3 controller on the
Adapter List window, and press Enter.
The Adapter Properties window appears.
2. Highlight SAS T
opology, and press Enter.
The SAS Topology window appears.
3. Select the disk in the De
vice Identifier column, and press Enter.
The LED on the disk flashes until you press a key to stop it.
4. To identify all the disk drives in a volume, select the volume in the l
eft column of
the SAS Topology window, and press Enter.
The LEDs flash on all disk drives in the volume until
you press a key to stop them.
Note: The LED
s on the disk drives flash as previously described if the firmware
configuration is correct and the drives are in a disk enclosure.
6.2.4.6 Selecting a Boot Disk
You can select a boot disk in the SAS Topology window. The next time you boot the
computer, the firmware moves this disk to scan ID 0, making it the new boot disk. This
feature makes it easier to set BIOS boot device options and to keep the boot device
constant during device additions and removals. You can also select an alternative boot
device. If the BIOS cannot find the preferred boot device when it loads, it attempts to boot
from the alternative device.
Follow these steps to select a boot disk: