Configure Menu; Table 11-2. Configuration Menu Options - Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 3 User Manual

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PERC 3 BI OS C o nfigurati on Ut ili ty
Ta b l e 1 1 - 1 . B I O S C o n f i g u r a t i o n U t i l i t y M e n u O p t i o n s
Option Description
Objects Select this option to individually access controllers, logical drives,
and physical drives.
Format Select this option to low-level format hard disk drives.
Rebuild Select this option to rebuild failed disk drives.
Check Select this option to verify that the redundancy data in logical
Consistency drives using RAID level 1, 5, 10, or 50 is correct.
Select Select this option to list the adapters and select the adapter that
Adapter you want to configure. The number of the selected adapter
displays in the top right corner of the screen, along with its mode,
either standard or cluster.

Configure Menu

Choose Configure to select a method for configuring arrays and logical
drives. Table 11-2 displays the configuration methods, clear configuration
option, and boot drive option.
Ta b l e 1 1 - 2 . C o n f i g u r a t i o n M e n u O p t i o n s
Option Description
Easy Select this method to perform a logical drive configuration
Configuration where every physical array you define is automatically
associated with exactly one logical drive.
New Select this method to discard the existing configuration
Configuration information and to configure new arrays and logical drives. In
addition to providing the basic logical drive configuration
functions, New Configuration allows you to associate logical
drives with multiple arrays (spanning.)
View/Add Select this method to examine the existing configuration
Configuration and/or to specify additional arrays and logical drives.
View/Add Configuration provides the same functions
available in New Configuration.
Clear Select this option to erase the current configuration
Configuration information from the PERC 3 non-volatile memory.
Specify Boot Select this option to specify a logical drive as the boot drive
Logical Drive on this adapter.