Avago Technologies 3ware SAS 9750-16i4e - Manual (Page 39)

Making Drives Visible to the Operating System
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Making Drives Visible to the Operating
System
By default, if you leave individual drives unconfigured, they will not
available to the operating system. If you want to use individual drives,
configure them as single-disk units.
Checking the Motherboard Boot Sequence
Using your computer’s BIOS setup utility, make sure that it shows the
appropriate boot devices.
After installing the 3ware controller in your system, go into the BIOS for your
computer system to check and change the boot order. The new controller is
usually added as a boot device after previously existing boot devices. You can
move it up in the list, if appropriate. Refer to the documentation for your
system for information about starting the system BIOS.
• If the OS is already installed on a unit connected to the system, make
sure that device precedes the 3ware RAID controller in the boot sequence.
If you have other disks installed on the motherboard, the 3ware RAID
controller should precede them in boot order.
• If you are installing your OS on a disk or unit attached to the 3ware
RAID controller, specify the controller as the boot device. In 3BM, the
unit listed at the top on the 3BM main page will be the boot unit. You can
change the order by highlighting a unit and pressing the PgUp or PgDn
key. (Note that if you configured more than one unit, the drive(s)
specified as Unit 0 is treated as the boot disk.)
What Next?
The final steps in setting up your RAID units is to load the 3ware driver and
make the units available to your operating system. For details about loading
the 3ware driver, turn to Appendix B, “Driver and Software Installation” on
page 301 and for details on making the units available to your system, see
Chapter 7, “Configuring Units.”, and “Partitioning, Formatting, and
Mounting Units” on page 90
After installing the driver, in order to maintain your RAID units, you may also
want to install 3ware’s browser-based Disk Management tool, 3DM2, or the
3ware command line interface (CLI). For more information, see Appendix B,
“Driver and Software Installation” on page 301.