Making Drives Visible To The Operating System; Checking The Motherboard Boot Sequence; What Next - 3Ware 9550SXU-12 User Manual

Making Drives Visible to the Operating
System

Checking the Motherboard Boot Sequence

What Next?

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By default, if you leave individual drives unconfigured, they will not be
available to the operating system. If you want to be able to use individual
drives, configure them as single-disk units.
If you have JBODs attached to an 8000 controller that you want to move to a
9000 controller, see "Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000
Controller" on page 141.
Using your computer's Setup utility, ensure that it shows the appropriate boot
device.
After installing the 3ware controller in your system, go into the BIOS for your
computer system to check and change the boot order. This is necessary
because most systems automatically change the boot order when they detect a
newly installed controller and device. Refer to the documentation for your
system for information about starting the system BIOS.
• If the OS is already installed on a unit connected to the system, be
sure that device precedes the 3ware RAID controller in the boot sequence.
If you have other disks installed on the motherboard, the 3ware RAID
controller should precede them in boot order.
• If you will install your OS on a disk or unit attached to the 3ware
RAID controller, specify the controller as the boot device. (Note that if
you configured more than one unit, the drive(s) specified as Unit 0 will be
treated as the boot disk.)
The final steps in setting up your RAID units are to load the 3ware driver and
make the units available to your operating system. For details, turn to
Chapter 4, "Driver Installation."
After installing the driver, in order to maintain your RAID units, you may also
want to install 3ware's browser-based Disk Management tool, 3DM 2, or the
3ware Command Line Interface (CLI). For more information, see
Appendix B, "Software Installation" on page 322.

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