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Dell manager menu options – Dell 3 User Manual

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Select Settings—> Keyboard—> Linux Console from the Terminal

menu.

Dell Manager Menu Options

The following sections list the menu and sub-menu options available from
the Dell Manager Management Menu.

Initialize Menu

Choose Initialize from the Dell Manager Management Menu to initialize
one or more logical drives. This action typically follows the configuration of
a new logical drive.

Objects Menu

Choose Objects from the Dell Manager Management Menu to access the
controllers, logical drives, physical drives, and SCSI channels individually.
You can also change certain settings for each object. The Objects menu
options are described in Table 12-3.

Adapter

Select Objects—> Adapter select a PERC controller (if your computer has
more than one) and modify parameters. You can install only one PERC 3
controller, but you can install other PERC controllers in the computer.

Table 12-3 displays the Adapter menu options.

Ta b l e 1 2 - 3 . A d a p t e r M e n u O p t i o n s

Option

Description

FlexRAID

PowerFail

Select this option to allow drive reconstruction to continue

when the system restarts if a power failure occurs. This will

reduce the size of the logical drive by [1 MB times the

number of drives in the logical drive].

Disk Spin up

Timings

Select this option to set the method and timing for spinning

up the hard drives in the computer.

Alarm Control

Select this option to enable, disable, or silence the onboard

alarm tone generator.