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Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings, Power-On Self Test (POST) Display Options, BIOS Loading Options

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Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings 3BM 2 includes the following settings that let you customize the behavior of the BIOS for the selected 9550SX controller. You can access these settings by selecting Settings > BIOS Settings from the main 3BM screen. Power-On Self Test (POST) Display Options Display Control. Specifies what level of detail to display on the start-up screen. „ Full displays all available information about the items attached to the controller, including available drives, hot spares, and configured units. „ Unit Only displays only configured units. „ Summary displays a one-sentence description of the items attached to the controller. Array View. Specifies what level of information to show about configured units on the start-up screen. „ Expanded lists each unit and shows the specific drives that make up the unit. „ Collapsed lists only the configured units. Pause Time. Sets the number of seconds that BIOS loading will pause to displaying the RAID configuration before continuing to boot the operating system. You can set a pause time of up to 10 seconds. The default is 6 seconds. Full Screen Control. When you have many drives attached to a controller and choose to display the Full level of detail, the information can extend beyond a screens' worth. The Full Screen Control setting lets you specify whether to wait for a keystroke when the screen is full, before displaying additional information. This option can be either No Key or Wait Key. BIOS Loading Options Load Control. This setting lets you suppress loading of the BIOS for this controller. This can be useful for "headless" systems (without a monitor and keyboard) that have many types of PCI controllers and do not need to boot from the units. Note: During the boot process, you can also bypass loading of the BIOS for all controllers for one time only by pressing Alt-B. This is useful to temporarily boot from a non-3ware device without having to change the system's boot order. www.3ware.com 61

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Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings
www.3ware.com
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Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings
3BM 2 includes the following settings that let you customize the behavior of
the BIOS for the selected 9550SX controller. You can access these settings by
selecting Settings > BIOS Settings from the main 3BM screen.
Power-On Self Test (POST) Display Options
Display Control.
Specifies what level of detail to display on the start-up
screen.
Full
displays all available information about the items attached to the
controller, including available drives, hot spares, and configured units.
Unit Only
displays only configured units.
Summary
displays a one-sentence description of the items attached to the
controller.
Array View
.
Specifies what level of information to show about configured
units on the start-up screen.
Expanded
lists each unit and shows the specific drives that make up the
unit.
Collapsed
lists only the configured units.
Pause Time
.
Sets the number of seconds that BIOS loading will pause to
displaying the RAID configuration before continuing to boot the operating
system. You can set a pause time of up to 10 seconds. The default is 6
seconds.
Full Screen Control
.
When you have many drives attached to a controller
and choose to display the Full level of detail, the information can extend
beyond a screens’ worth. The Full Screen Control setting lets you specify
whether to wait for a keystroke when the screen is full, before displaying
additional information. This option can be either
No Key
or
Wait Key
.
BIOS Loading Options
Load Control.
This setting lets you suppress loading of the BIOS for this
controller. This can be useful for “headless” systems (without a monitor and
keyboard) that have many types of PCI controllers and do not need to boot
from the units.
Note:
During the boot process, you can also bypass loading of the
BIOS for all controllers for one time only by pressing
Alt-B
. This
is useful to temporarily boot from a non-3ware device without
having to change the system’s boot order.