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Dell 3 User Manual

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PERC 3 BIOS Configuration Utility

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Select Enabled to enable Virtual Sizing.
After you have created a logical drive set, the partition of the drive

should be as large as the virtual size of the logical drive. After you have

created a logical array set, the drive partition can be as large as the full

size of the logical drive. However, this is the full virtual drive size, not

the actual physical drive size.

Physical Drive

Select Objects—> Physical Drive to select a physical device and to perform
the operations listed in the table below. The physical drives in the computer
are listed. Move the cursor to the desired device and press to
display the screen.

Table 11-5 displays the operations you can perform on the physical drives.

Ta b l e 1 1 - 5 . P h y s i c a l D r i v e M e n u O p t i o n s

Option

Description

Rebuild

Rebuilds the selected physical drive.

Format

Low-level formats the selected disk drive.

Force Online

Changes the state of the selected disk drive to online.

Force Offline/

Remove HSP

Changes the state of the selected disk drive to offline.

Make HotSpare

Designates the selected disk drive as a hot spare.

View Drive

Information

Displays the drive properties for the selected physical device.

View Rebuild

Progress

Indicates how much of the rebuild has been completed.

SCSI Command

Qtagging

Sets the number of queue tags per command. The options

are Disabled Command Tagging, 2 Queue Tags, 3 Queue

Tags, 4 Queue Tags, or Enhanced QTag Scheduling. The

default is Enhanced QTag Scheduling.

Transfer Speed

Option

Selects the speed at which data is transferred. Displays a

menu that contains the options Negotiation=Wide, and Set

Transfer Speed. The maximum transfer speed is 160M.