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Chapter 5

5.11 Changing Controller Options from the BIOS

Selecting Controller Options allows you to configure whether arrays
may be bootable, as well as other aspects of the boot process. The default
is to configure an array so that an operating system can boot from the
RAID. If an error occurs, an error message is displayed. However, you
may be booting from the motherboard IDE or another SCSI device in
your system. If this is the case, you may not want to install INT13 (with-
out INT13, DOS cannot see the array).

This menu also sets whether you want the boot process to pause when an
error occurs. When the Pause feature is enabled and an array goes critical
or offline, or there is a controller configuration error, the boot process
stops and you must press Enter to continue booting. This gives you time
to view the error message on the screen. If the Pause feature is disabled,
the error message is displayed briefly, but the system continues to boot.

To select a boot option:
1.

From the Main menu, select Controller Options. The Controller
Options
area is displayed in the BIOS Array Configuration Util-
ity
window as shown below. The current settings display in
magenta text above the white selectable options.

Note:

If you configure Boot Mode to install INT13 and
to never display an error message, you will not
know during the boot process if an array is
degraded or if other problems have occurred.

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