Dell 3 - Manual (Page 16)

14 Contents
PERC 3/QC and PERC 3/DC Default Settings . . . . . . . . . 161
PERC 3/SC and PERC 3/DCL Default Settings . . . . . . . . . 161
Reserved Disk Space during Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Designating Drives as Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Using Easy Configuration
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163
Using New Configuration
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167
Using View/Add Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Initializing Logical Drives
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178
Batch Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Individual Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Deleting Logical Drives (Random Array Deletion) . . . . . . . . . 179
Formatting Physical Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Media Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Formatting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Rebuilding Failed Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Manual Rebuild – Rebuilding an Individual Drive . . . . . . . . 182
Manual Rebuild – Batch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Using a Pre-loaded SCSI Drive “As-is” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Exiting the PERC 3 BIOS Configuration Utility
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184
Setting Hardware Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Cluster Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Enabling and Disabling the Cluster Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 185
12 Dell Manager
Starting Dell Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Management Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Using Dell Manager in Red Hat Linux GUI Mode . . . . . . . 189