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BIOS Configuration Utility and Dell Manager
Dell™PowerEdge™ExpandableRAIDController4/SC,4/DC,and4e/DCUser'sGuide
Starting the BIOS Configuration Utility
Starting Dell Manager
Using Dell Manager in Red Hat Linux GUI Mode
Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives
Designating Drives as Hot Spares
Creating Arrays and Logical Drives
Drive Roaming
Initializing Logical Drives
Deleting Logical Drives
Clearing Physical Drives
Rebuilding Failed Hard Drives
Using a Pre-loaded SCSI Drive "As-is"
FlexRAID Virtual Sizing
Checking Data Consistency
Reconstructing Logical Drives
Exiting the Configuration Utility
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The BIOS Configuration Utility configures disk arrays and logical drives. Because the utility resides in the RAID controller BIOS, its operation is independent of
the operating systems on your system.
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Dell™Managerisacharacter-based, non-GUI utility that changes policies, and parameters, and monitors RAID systems. Dell Manager runs under Red Hat
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Enterprise Linux, Advanced Server edition and Enterprise edition.
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Use these utilities to do the following:
l Create hot spare drives.
l Configure physical arrays and logical drives.
l Initialize one or more logical drives.
l Access controllers, logical drives, and, physical drives individually.
l Rebuild failed hard drives.
l Verify that the redundancy data in logical drives using RAID level 1, 5, 10, or 50 is correct.
l Reconstruct logical drives after changing RAID levels or adding a hard drive to an array.
l Select a host controller to work on.
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The BIOS Configuration Utility and the Dell Manager for Linux use the same command structure to configure controllers and disks. The following sections
describe the steps to start either utility and detailed instructions to perform configuration steps using either utility.
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Starting the BIOS Configuration Utility
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When the host computer boots, hold the <Ctrl> key and press the <M> key when a BIOS banner such as the following appears:
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HA -0 (Bus X Dev X) Type: PERC 4 Standard FWx.xx SDRAM=128MB
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Battery Module is Present on Adapter
NOTE: TheOpenManage™ArrayManagercanperformmanyofthesametasksastheBIOSConfigurationUtilityandDellManager.
NOTE: Dell Manager screens differ slightly from the BIOS Configuration Utility screens, but the utilities have similar functions.