Areca 24/4 Internal/External Port Pcie 3.0 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA Raid Controller 2Gb Cache - Manual (Page 192)

WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION
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• Hitachi/WDC/Seagate SATA HDD Speed
The purpose of this setting is to provide alternative method to
change the interface speed of a SATA HDD speed so that it can
be successfully utilized in some compatible condition. Reboot is
required for this setting to take effect.
• BIOS Selection
It combines the “Legacy BIOS”, “UEFI BIOS” and “EFI BIOS”
into a single BIOS, and provides BIOS option in the GUI. In the
old days, Areca provided separate BIOS files for each, and need
to manually flash it in. Now flashing BIOS for different BIOS
type is no longer needed, just make the BIOS selection in
System Controls: Advance Configuration: BIOS Option.
The adapter provides three BIOS options.
- Auto: depends on the M/B PCIe slot setting for the RAID
adapter installed.
- UEFI: for PC motherboards using UEFI boot.
- Legacy INT13: for PC motherboards that are using regular
BIOS boot.
- Disable: disable adapter BIOS at POST (set to 0xFF)
==> If BIOS is to be disabled --> All data are 0xFF
• PCIE Link Down Reset
If SAS RAID adapters is experiencing problems with link down
issue in some host M/B , please try to set the “PCIE Link Down
Reset”.
Enable: The RAID-on-Chip (ROC) PCIe link will be down and
need to be re-initialized to get the link up.
Disable: The RAID-on-Chip (ROC) PCIe link will ignore the
“PCIE link Down Reset” command.
• Active Cable Management
An active cable requires power for circuitry that is integral to
any of the TX/RX high speed serial channels supported by the
cable. In addition, the active cable requires power to operate
the management interface. There is one E2prom on the AOC
cable that records the AOC capability 6 or 12 Gb/s, optical or no
optical.This seting is for user to disable the E2prom value that
it writes the wrong value. If select “Auto”, it only works with the
8644 cable that has been programmed.