Viewing The Configuration; Using The Advanced Configuration Functions - IBM Netfinity ServeRAID-3H Installation And User Manual

Bad Stripe, Locked Stripe, or Blocked Drive identifies the logical drives that are affected.
– Bad Stripe Drives indicates logical drives that has inaccessible areas.
– Locked Stripe Drives is a reserved field.
– Blocked Drives indicates the logical drives that are blocked. You must unblock a blocked drive
before you can use it. See "Logical drive state descriptions" on page 38 for more information.

Viewing the configuration

You can select View Configuration from the Main Menu to display the number of each logical drive, the
size, RAID level, state, stripe-unit size, write policy, read-ahead status, and creation date for each logical
drive.

Using the advanced configuration functions

You can select the Advanced Functions to restore the controller configuration to factory default settings,
copy the configuration from drives to controller, configure BIOS settings, and view the controller and PCI
information.
When you select the Advanced Functions from the Main Menu, the following choices appear on the
screen.
Attention:
Be careful when making selections from this menu. If you change the configuration, you might lose data.
Restore to Factory Default Settings is used to reset the configuration. When you reset the
configuration, you will not have access to any data stored on the logical drives attached to the
selected ServeRAID controller.
This choice deletes the existing configuration information, sets all functional physical drives attached to
the controller to the Ready state, and deletes all logical drives defined for the controller.
This choice does not change any of the ServeRAID controller settings (such as the stripe-unit size,
rebuild rate, and so on) from their current or customized values.
Copy the Configuration from Drives to Controller reads the most common configuration from the
drives in the system and copies it to the ServeRAID controller.
Configure BIOS Settings is used to modify the BIOS settings, such as the Bootable CD-ROM setting,
for the ServeRAID controller. (See "Setting the Bootable CD-ROM feature" on page 77 for more
information.)
Note: The Multiple Controller mode for extra BIOS has two settings: Erase and Shrink. When this
parameter is set to Erase, redundant copies of the ServeRAID BIOS are erased. When this
parameter is set to Shrink, the redundant copies of the ServeRAID BIOS are removed from
memory but stored in the controller for future use. When you have multiple ServeRAID
controllers installed, you need only one active copy of ServeRAID BIOS. However, to ensure
that you have a copy of the ServeRAID BIOS available if your active copy becomes defective
or unavailable, leave the Multiple Controller parameter set to Shrink.
View Controller and PCI Information shows the ServeRAID controller hardware and PCI register
information.
Exit is used to exit from the Mini-Configuration program.
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