HighPoint RocketRAID 4500 Series User Manual page 20

Staggered spinup: The default value of this option is disabled. Enabling this setting will instruct
the card to power up the hard disks, sequentially (one disk approximately
every 2 seconds). Not all disk support this setting – consult the disk
documentation for more information.
Warning: Western Digital hard disks do not support this setting. Enabling
this setting is not recommended.
detected by non-RAID controller.
Number of drives per You can select the number of hard disk per spinup.
spinup:
Delay between Interval time between two continuous spinup.
spinup (seconds):
Spindown Idle Disk Hard drives can be instructed to spin down when there is no disk activity for a
(minutes): set period of time. You are free to specify the interval – from 10 to 240
minutes.
Continue Rebuilding Bad sectors can cause a RAID rebuild to stop. This option will ignore bad
on Error: sector reading and let the rebuild process continue. This can cause data
inconsistency in the future. By enabling this option it is recommended to view
the Event log and look for HDD bad sector events. If bad sectors are found, it
is then recommended that the HDD with bad sectors be fixed then reconnect
the HDD back to the HBA
Rebuild Priority: This option is provided for redundant arrays. This setting determines how HBA
resources should be directed towards repairing broken RAID arrays.
Single BCV entry: This setting may be useful for some motherboards, when booting from a disk
or array attached to the RocketRAID HBA.
When this setting is enabled (and if the card hosts several logical disks) only
the first disk will be reported to the motherboard BIOS.
INT 13 support: INT13 is the HBA's boot function. It can be Enabled or Disabled.
Stop on error: Enabled by default. If disabled, the host adapter BIOS menu will bypass array
or device errors when booting the system.
Auto Rebuild: If enabled, any new disk attached to the HBA will be used to rebuild the
critical RAID array.
Note: The new disk needs to be equal to or larger than the minimum
capacity among the remaining disk members of the array.
If enabled, these disks may not be
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