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BIOS CONFIGURATION
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3. McBIOS RAID Manager
The system mainboard BIOS automatically congures the following
SATA RAID controller parameters at power-up:
• I/O Port Address
• Interrupt Channel (IRQ)
• Adapter ROM Base Address
Use McBIOS RAID manager to further congure the SATA RAID con-
troller to suit your server hardware and operating system.
3.1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager
This section explains how to use the McBIOS RAID manager to
congure your RAID system. The McBIOS RAID manager is de-
signed to be user-friendly. It is a menu-driven program, residing
in the rmware, which allows you to scroll through various menus
and sub-menus and select among the predetermined conguration
options.
When starting a system with an SATA RAID controller installed, it
will display the following message on the monitor during the start-
up sequence (after the system bios startup screen but before the
operating system boots):
The McBIOS RAID manager message remains on your screen for
about nine seconds, giving you time to start the conguration
menu by pressing Tab or F6. If you do not wish to enter congu-
ration menu, press ESC to skip conguration immediately. When
activated, the McBIOS RAID manager appears showing a selection
dialog box listing the SATA RAID controllers that are installed in the
system.
The legend at the bottom of the screen shows you what keys are
enabled for the screens.
I/O-Port=F3000000h, IRQ=11, BIOS ROM mapped at D000:0h
No BIOS disk Found, RAID Controller BIOS not installed!
Press <Tab/F6> to enter SETUP menu. 9 second(s) left <ESC to Skip>..
ARC-1xxx RAID Ctrl - DRAM: 128(MB) / #Channels: 8
BIOS: V1.00 / Date: 2004-5-13 - F/W: V1.31 / Date: 2004-5-31