Adjusting Bios Loading Settings - 3Ware 9650SE-2LPML User Manual

Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings

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3BM 2 includes the following settings that let you customize the behavior of
the BIOS for the selected controller. You can access these settings by selecting
Settings > BIOS Settings from the main 3BM screen.
• Power-On Self Test (POST) Display Options
• BIOS Loading Options
• To change BIOS settings
Power-On Self Test (POST) Display Options
Specifies what level of detail to display on the start-up
Display Control.
screen.
• Full displays all available information about the items attached to the
controller, including available drives, hot spares, and configured units.
• Unit Only displays only configured units.
• Summary displays a one-sentence description of the items attached to the
controller.
Array View . Specifies what level of information to show about configured
units on the start-up screen.
• lists each unit and shows the specific drives that make up the
Expanded
unit.
• lists only the configured units.
Collapsed
. Sets the number of seconds that BIOS loading will pause to
Pause Time
displaying the RAID configuration before continuing to boot the operating
system. You can set a pause time of up to 10 seconds. The default is 6
seconds.
. When you have many drives attached to a controller
Full Screen Control
and choose to display the Full level of detail, the information can extend
beyond a screens' worth. The Full Screen Control setting lets you specify
whether to wait for a keystroke when the screen is full, before displaying
additional information. This option can be either
BIOS Loading Options
Load Control. This setting lets you suppress loading of the BIOS for this
controller. This can be useful for "headless" systems (without a monitor and
keyboard) that have many types of PCI controllers and do not need to boot
from the units.
Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings
No Key or Wait Key .
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