Dell PERC 4/DC - Manual (Page 69)

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BIOS Configuration Utility and Dell Manager
Dell™ PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller 4/SC and 4/DC User's Guide
Starting the BIOS Configuration Utility
Starting Dell Manager
Using Dell Manager in Red Hat Linux GUI Mode
Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives
Designating Drives as Hot Spares
Creating Arrays and Logical Drives
Drive Roaming
Initializing Logical Drives
Deleting Logical Drives
Clearing Physical Drives
Rebuilding Failed Hard Drives
Using a Pre-loaded SCSI Drive "As-is"
FlexRAID Virtual Sizing
Checking Data Consistency
Reconstructing Logical Drives
Exiting the Configuration Utility
The BIOS Configuration Utility configures disk arrays and logical drives. Because the utility resides in the RAID controller BIOS, its operation is independent of
the operating systems on your system.
Dell™ Manager is a character -based, non-GUI utility that changes policies, and parameters, and monitors RAID systems. Dell Manager runs under Red Hat
Linux, Advanced Server, Enterprise.
Use these utilities to do the following:
l Create hot spare drives.
l Configure physical arrays and logical drives.
l Initialize one or more logical drives.
l Access controllers, logical drives, and, physical drives individually.
l Rebuild failed hard drives.
l Verify that the redundancy data in logical drives using RAID level 1, 5, 10, or 50 is correct.
l Reconstruct logical drives after changing RAID levels or adding a hard drive to an array
l Select a host controller to work on.
Starting the BIOS Configuration Utility
When the host computer boots, hold the key and press the key when a BIOS banner such as the following appears:
HA -0 (Bus X Dev X) Type: PERC 4 Standard FWx.xx SDRAM=128MB
Battery Module is Present on Adapter
1 Logical Drive found on the Host Adapter
Adapter BIOS Disabled, No Logical Drives handled by BIOS