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In this Manual This manual is organized as follows: Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Title Overview MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility WebBIOS Configuration Utility MegaRAID Manager Installing Power Console Plus Running Power Console Plus Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives Assigning Hot Spares Virtual Sizing and Online Capacity Expansion Turn to page 1 page 5 page 35 page 55 page 85 page 99 page 121 page 129 page 131 Note: Some of the features and procedures in this manual apply only to boards that support Ultra 160M, and 40 logical drives. This will be noted in the description of the feature or procedure. The Ultra 160M boards are: • Enterprise 1600 (Series 471) • Elite 1600 (Series 493) • Express 500 (Series 475) MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility The MegaRAID BIOS Configuration utility is a character-based utility than you can run by pressing when the computer boots. Use MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility to: • create hotspare drives • configure physical arrays and logical drives • initialize one or more logical drives • individually access controllers, logical drives, and, physical drives • low-level format hard disk drives • rebuild failed disk drives • verify that the redundancy data in logical drives using RAID level 1, 3, or 5 is correct • select a MegaRAID host adapter to work on Cont'd 2 MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide

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MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide
2
In this Manual
This manual is organized as follows:
Chapter
Title
Turn to
1
Overview
page 1
2
MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility
page 5
3
WebBIOS Configuration Utility
page 35
4
MegaRAID Manager
page 55
5
Installing Power Console Plus
page 85
6
Running Power Console Plus
page 99
7
Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives
page 121
8
Assigning Hot Spares
page 129
9
Virtual Sizing and Online Capacity Expansion
page 131
Note:
Some of the features and procedures in this manual apply only to
boards that support Ultra 160M, and 40 logical drives. This will be
noted in the description of the feature or procedure. The Ultra 160M
boards are:
Enterprise 1600 (Series 471)
Elite 1600 (Series 493)
Express 500 (Series 475)
MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility
The MegaRAID BIOS Configuration utility is a
character-based utility than you can run by pressing <Ctrl> <M> when the
computer boots. Use MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility to:
create hotspare drives
configure physical arrays and logical drives
initialize one or more logical drives
individually access controllers, logical drives, and, physical drives
low-level format hard disk drives
rebuild failed disk drives
verify that the redundancy data in logical drives using RAID level 1, 3, or 5
is correct
select a MegaRAID host adapter to work on
Cont’d