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Controller management, Enabling boot support – Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 6i User Manual

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Configuring and Managing RAID

3 Press to display a menu of available actions.

The Rebuild option is highlighted at the top of the menu.

4 Press the right arrow key to display the rebuild options and select Start.
5 After you start the rebuild, press to display the previous menu.

NOTE:

You can also use the VD Mgmt screen to perform a manual rebuild. Use the

arrow key to highlight physical disk in the tree view, and press . In the menu
that displays, select the Rebuild option.

NOTICE:

If a physical disk is a member of a disk group that contains multiple virtual

disks and one of the virtual disks is deleted when a rebuild operation is in progress,
the rebuild operation stops. If this occurs, you can resume the rebuild operation
manually using a storage management application. To avoid interruption, ensure
that none of the virtual disks are deleted until the rebuild is complete.

Controller Management

Enabling Boot Support

NOTE:

Refer to your system documentation to ensure the proper boot order is

selected in the system BIOS.

In a multiple controller environment, you can enable BIOS on multiple
controllers. However, if you want to boot from a specific controller, then enable
the BIOS on that controller and disable it on the other controllers. The system
can then boot from the BIOS-enabled controller. Perform the following steps to
enable the controller BIOS.

1 Press to access the Ctrl Mgmt menu screen.
2 Press to move the cursor to Enable Controller BIOS in the

Settings box.

3 Press the spacebar to select Enable Controller BIOS.

An X displays beside Enable Controller BIOS.

4 Press to move the cursor to the Apply button, and then press

to apply the selection.

The controller BIOS is enabled. To disable the controller BIOS, use the
spacebar to deselect the Enable Controller BIOS control, and then select
Apply and press .

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