Dell 3 User Manual

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PERC 3 BIOS Configuration Utility

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Initialize Menu

NOTE: See page 178 for

procedures for initializing
logical drives.

Choose Initialize from the BIOS Configuration Utility Management Menu
to initialize one or more logical drives. Press the space bar to select a single
driver or the <F2> key to select all drives for initialization. This action
typically follows the configuration of a new logical drive.

NOTICE: Initializing a logical drive destroys all data on the logical drive.

Objects Menu

Choose Objects from the Management Menu to access the adapters,
logical drives, physical drives, and SCSI channels individually. You can also
change settings for each object. The Objects menu options are described in
the following sections.

Adapter

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

Table 11-3 describes the Adapter menu options.

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

Option

Description

Clear

Configuration

Choose this option to erase the current configuration from

the controller non-volatile memory.

FlexRAID

PowerFail

Choose this option to enable or disable the FlexRAID

PowerFail feature. This option allows drive reconstruction,

rebuild, and check consistency to continue when the system

restarts because of a power failure, reset, or hard boot.

Fast Initialization

Select this option to write zeros to the first sector of the

logical drive so that initialization occurs in 2 – 3 seconds.
When this option is set to Disabled, a full initialization

takes place on the entire logical drive. On a larger array

(over 5 arrays), it is best to set fast initialization to

Disabled, then initialize. Otherwise, the controller will run

a background consistency check within five minutes of

reboot or RAID 5 creation.

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