Using A Pre-Loaded Scsi Drive "As-Is - Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 3 User Manual

A device selection window displays the devices connected to the
current controller. The failed drives have FAIL indicators.
Press the arrow keys to highlight any failed drives to be rebuilt.,
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Press the spacebar to select the desired physical drives for rebuild.
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After you select the physical drives, press <F10>.
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Select Yes at the prompt.
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The indicators for the selected drives change to REBLD. Rebuilding
can take some time, depending on the number of drives selected and
the drive capacities.
When rebuild is complete, press any key to continue.
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Press <Esc> to display the Management Menu.
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Using a Pre-loaded SCSI Drive "As-is"

You may have a SCSI hard drive that is already loaded with software. The
drive may be a boot disk containing an operating system. If so, add the
PERC device driver to this system drive before you switch to the PERC 3
and attempt to boot from it. You can use the PERC 3 controller as a SCSI
adapter for such a drive by performing the following steps.
Connect the SCSI drive to the channel on the PERC 3 controller, with
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proper termination and TID settings.
Boot the computer.
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Press <Ctrl><M> to start the BIOS Configuration Utility.
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Select Configure—> Easy Configuration.
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Press the cursor keys to select the pre-loaded drive.
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Press the spacebar.
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The pre-loaded drive should now become an array element.
Press <Enter>.
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You have now declared the pre-loaded drive as a one-disk array. The
logical drive configuration screen displays.
Set the Read Policy on the Advanced Menu.
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Set the Cache Policy on the Advanced Menu.
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NOTE: To use a pre-
loaded system drive in the
manner described here,
you must make it the first
logical drive defined (for
example: LD1) on the
controller it is connected
to. This will make the
drive ID 0 LUN 0. If the
drive is not a boot device,
the logical drive number
is not critical.
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