Viewing Hba Properties; Modifying Hba Settings; Formatting And Verifying Disk Drives; Identifying Disk Drives - Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI Installation And User Manual

• Refer to the on-screen instructions for keyboard navigation and selection options.
• Refer to the option descriptions in this chapter for details about individual HBA configuration settings.

Viewing HBA Properties

Note: This option is available only in the Ctrl-A interface.
To view general information about your HBA, start the HBA Configuration Utility, then select Controller
Properties from the SerialSelect menu.

Modifying HBA Settings

Note: This option is available only in the Ctrl-A interface.
To modify your HBA's general settings, start the HBA Configuration Utility, then select Controller
Configuration from the SerialSelect menu. You can set the options in the table below.
Option
BBS Support
POST Banner Display
Ctrl-A Message Display
Physical Drive Display During
POST

Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives

You can use the disk utilities to low-level format or verify your disk drives. (New disk drives are low-level
formatted at the factory and do not need to be low-level formatted again.)
Caution: Before you format a disk drive, back up all data. Formatting destroys all data
on a disk drive.
To format or verify a disk drive:
1. Start the HBA Configuration Utility (see
on page 34).
2. Select Disk Utilities from the main menu.
3. Select a drive from the device list and press
4. Select Format Disk or Verify Disk.
5. Select Yes.

Identifying Disk Drives

You can use the disk utilities to identify a disk drive by blinking its LED.
Note: This feature is only available with disk drives that have an activity LED.
To identify a disk drive:
1. Start the HBA Configuration Utility (see
on page 34).
2. Select Disk Utilities from the main menu.
3. Select a drive from the device list and press
4. Select Indicate LED.
5. Select 'Blink LED on Single Drive' or 'Blink LEDs on All Drives', then press
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Description
When enabled in systems that support BBS, the HBA presents attached bootable
devices up to the BIOS for boot device selection. Default is Device.
When enabled, a banner is displayed during system Power On Self Test (POST).
Default is enabled.
When enabled, the Ctrl-A prompt is displayed during POST. Default is enabled.
When enabled, connected disk drives are displayed during POST. Displaying the disk
drives adds a few seconds to the overall POST time. Default is enabled.
Running the HBA Configuration Utility: Ctrl-A or uEFI/HII?
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Running the HBA Configuration Utility: Ctrl-A or uEFI/HII?
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