Checking Your Controller And Devices; Determining The Boot Controller - Adaptec RAID 21610SA Installation And User Manual

Checking Your Controller and Devices

Now that you have installed your Adaptec 2410SA controller and
connected your Serial ATA hard drives, you are ready to use the
ARC utility to check your controller and devices, as described
below:
1 Turn on your computer.
2 When prompted, enter the ARC utility by pressing Ctrl+A.
3 If your drives have already been used in another system (even if
not part of an array), select Array Configuration Utility and
initialize the drives. Otherwise, skip to the
Note: If a drive appears to be missing, power down the
computer and check the connections.
4 Select SATASelect to verify the hardware configuration of the
controller and the drives.
Verify that all drives and controllers are shown. If anything
appears to be missing, power down the computer and check the
connections.

Determining the Boot Controller

Your Adaptec 2410SA is a bootable controller. If your computer
already contains a bootable hard drive with an installed operating
system, you can set up your computer to boot a second operating
system from the new controller.
To add a second bootable controller, you may need to enter Setup
and change the hard disk boot sequence so that the Adaptec 2410SA
controller heads the list. If Setup does not allow this change, your
system BIOS may not be configurable to allow the Adaptec 2410SA
controller to act as a second boot device.
Installing the Controller
Step 4.
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