Users Guide

NOTE: The help information for all of the options within the UEFI RAID Configuration Utility

can be viewed by clicking on Help at the top right-hand corner of the browser screen. Help

information for individual option menus can also be viewed by scrolling down on each option.

NOTE: Some of the options within the UEFI RAID Configuration Utility are not present if the

controller does not support the corresponding feature. Options may also be grayed out if the

feature is supported in existing configuration.

NOTE: Background operations are blocked on the PERC H310 controller in the UEFI RAID

Configuration Utility and no operation progress updates are to be seen.

Exiting The UEFI RAID Configuration Utility

To exit the UEFI RAID Configuration Utility, press <Esc> or click on Back at any browser screen, until you

return to the Device Settings menu.

Configuration Options

There are four main configuration option menus available in the UEFI RAID Configuration Utility. These

menus are outlined below.

• Controller Management—Performs controller properties, foreign configurations, and battery, and

other high-level controller functions.

• Virtual Disk Management—Creates or deletes virtual disks, manage virtual disk properties, and

performs operations such as background initialization, consistency check, locate and reconfiguration.

• Physical Disk Management—Displays physical disk properties and performs operations such as assign

or unassign hot spares, locate, force online/offline and rebuild after a physical disk failure.

• Enclosure Management—Displays attached enclosures, enclosure firmware revision and physical

disks attached to the enclosures.

Controller Management Menu

The Controller Management menu can be used to perform the following controller-level functions. Each

of these functions is its own selectable menu option.

• View Controller Information—Displays information about the controller.

• Change Controller Properties—Updates controller properties and/or restores factory defaults for the

controller.

– Limit SATA speed to 3Gbps (reboot required): Select the option to limit the negotiated speed of

6Gbps SATA disks to 3Gbps. When selected, the system will need to be rebooted.

– PCI link speed: For systems capable of PCI Generation 3 link speeds, an option will appear at the

top of this screen named Change Link Speed to Gen 3. When selected, the system will need to be

rebooted. If the system is currently using Gen 3, the option will read Change Link Speed to Gen 2.

– Boot Error Handling: Selects the way errors found at boot are handled.

* Stop on errors: Interrupt the boot on all errors. Requires the user to either continue boot or

enter the BIOS Configuration Utility to resolve errors.

* Pause on errors: Interrupt the boot on serious errors. Requires the user to either continue boot

or enter the BIOS Configuration Utility to resolve errors.

* Ignore errors: The controller will take the default action for each error and will only halt boot

when continuing is impossible.

* Safe mode on errors: The system will continue booting as long as the boot volume is not on

this controller. Drives connected to the controller will be reported as unconfigured good drives

to the RAID management utilities upon a successful boot. No configuration changes will be