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About the ARC Utility, About the Adaptec Flash Utility, Which Utility Should I Use?

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Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space l 51 About the ARC Utility The Adaptec RAID Configuration (ARC) utility is a BIOS-based utility that you can use to create and manage controllers, disk drives and other devices, and arrays. The ARC utility comprises these tools: ● Array Configuration Utility (ACU)-For creating and managing arrays, and initializing and rescanning disk drives. ● SerialSelect Utility-Used to change device and HostRAID controller settings. ● Disk Utilities-For formatting or verifying disk drives. The ARC utility is included in your controller's BIOS. For more information, see Using the ARC Utility on page 67. The ARC utility is primarily intended for pre-operating system installation configuration. About the Adaptec Flash Utility The Adaptec Flash Utility (AFU) is a text-based DOS utility that you can use to update, save, or verify your HostRAID controller's firmware BIOS and Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM). For more information, see page 79. ! Caution: Although the AFU contains safeguards to prevent you from accidentally damaging your RAID controller's flash contents, it is still important to use the AFU carefully and correctly to avoid rendering your RAID controller inoperable.Adaptec recommends that only advanced users familiar with working in DOS use the AFU. Which Utility Should I Use? To create a bootable array, Adaptec recommends that you use the BIOS-based ARC utility. For all subsequent storage management tasks, Adaptec recommends that you install and use Adaptec Storage Manager (see page 50). As a full-featured software application with a graphical user interface (GUI), it is the easiest to use and offers the widest range of management functions.

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Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space
l 51
About the ARC Utility
The Adaptec RAID Configuration (ARC) utility is a BIOS-based utility that you can use to
create and manage controllers, disk drives and other devices, and arrays. The ARC utility
comprises these tools:
●
Array Configuration Utility (ACU)
—For creating and managing arrays, and initializing
and rescanning disk drives.
●
Serial
Select
Utility
—Used to change device and HostRAID controller settings.
●
Disk Utilities
—For formatting or verifying disk drives.
The ARC utility is included in your controller’s BIOS. For more information, see
Using the
ARC Utility
on page 67
.
The ARC utility is primarily intended for pre-operating system installation configuration.
About the Adaptec Flash Utility
The Adaptec Flash Utility (AFU) is a text-based DOS utility that you can use to update, save, or
verify your HostRAID controller’s firmware BIOS and Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
(NVRAM). For more information, see
page 79
.
Caution:
Although the AFU contains safeguards to prevent you from accidentally damaging
your RAID controller’s flash contents, it is still important to use the AFU carefully and correctly
to avoid rendering your RAID controller inoperable.Adaptec recommends that only advanced
users familiar with working in DOS use the AFU.
Which Utility Should I Use?
To create a bootable array, Adaptec recommends that you use the BIOS-based ARC utility.
For all subsequent storage management tasks, Adaptec recommends that you install and use
Adaptec Storage Manager (see
page 50
). As a full-featured software application with a graphical
user interface (GUI), it is the easiest to use and offers the widest range of management
functions.
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