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Making an Array Bootable, Restart the system.

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DOS Utilities To initialize a drive: 1 Select Initialize Drives from the Main menu. 2 Use the arrow keys to select a channel. 3 Select the disks you want to initialize and press Insert. 4 Press Enter. 5 Read the warning message and ensure that you have selected the correct devices to initialize. Press Y to continue. Making an Array Bootable You can make an array bootable so the system boots from the array instead of from a stand-alone (single) device. To make an array bootable: 1 Select Manage Arrays from the Main menu. 2 Select the array you want to make bootable and press Ctrl+B. This changes the selected array's number to 00, making it the controller's boot array. 3 Restart the system. Notes I You cannot make a non-00 array bootable if the array is in a build/verify or reconfiguration process. I The controller always uses the lowest numbered array as its bootable array. If you delete Array 00 for any reason, the next higher numbered array becomes the boot array. Mark the correct array as the bootable array by making it Array 00. I If the controller is not a boot device, you can disable its runtime BIOS to conserve ROM. B-17

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DOS Utilities
To initialize a drive:
1
Select
Initialize Drives
from the
Main
menu.
2
Use the arrow keys to select a channel.
3
Select the disks you want to initialize and press
Insert
.
4
Press
Enter
.
5
Read the warning message and ensure that you have selected
the correct devices to initialize. Press
Y
to continue.
Making an Array Bootable
You can make an array bootable so the system boots from the array
instead of from a stand-alone (single) device.
To make an array bootable:
1
Select
Manage Arrays
from the
Main
menu.
2
Select the array you want to make bootable and press
Ctrl+B
.
This changes the selected array
’
s number to 00, making it the
controller
’
s boot array.
3
Restart the system.
Notes
■
You cannot make a non-00 array bootable if the array is in a
build/verify or reconfiguration process.
■
The controller always uses the lowest numbered array as its
bootable array. If you delete Array 00 for any reason, the next
higher numbered array becomes the boot array. Mark the
correct array as the bootable array by making it Array 00.
■
If the controller is not a boot device, you can disable its runtime
BIOS to conserve ROM.