Identifying Management Menu Options; Exiting Megaraid Bios - Intergraph InterRAID-8e Hardware User's Manual

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Identifying Management Menu Options

The Management menu options are as follows:
Option
Configure
Initialize
Objects
Format
Rebuild
Check
Consistency
Select Adapter
Disable BIOS
The following table defines some terms you will see while configuring drives and running
the MegaRAID BIOS configuration utility.
READY
ONLINE
REBUILD
OFFLINE
PACK
DRIVES
SIZE
HOTSP
FAIL

Exiting MegaRAID BIOS

To exit the MegaRAID BIOS configuration utility, press
displays. Choose Yes at the prompt to save changes and exit. You must then reboot the
system. The MegaRAID BIOS message displays again. Press
Configuration Utility prompt displays.
Description
Configures physical arrays and logical drives
Initializes one or more logical drives
Individually accesses controllers, logical drives, physical drives and
SCSI channel settings
Low-level formats a hard disk drive
Rebuilds a failed disk drive
Verifies that the redundancy data is correct in logical drives using
RAID level 1, 3, or 5
Selects a MegaRAID host adapter (controller)
Disables the BIOS
Disk drive ready for configuration
Disk drive ready for use
Disk drive in rebuild state
Unformatted drive
Configured pack
Number of drives in a pack
Size of the packs (in megabytes)
Disk drive configured as hotspare (standby) drive
Disk drive in fail state
while the Management menu
ESC
when the BIOS
ESC