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Chapter 5
Advanced Options
In this chapter you’ll learn how to use RAID EzAssist Advanced Options for
some advanced-level tasks that you may be required to perform from time to
time.
 Caution
Some Advanced Options can have sweeping effects
on configuration and controller performance. It is
important that these options be used only by an
experienced system administrator.
We will discuss the following tasks in this chapter:
• Updating (Flashing) new firmware code to one or more Mylex RAID
Controllers, or updating the RAID EzAssist BIOS Configuration
Utility itself
• Backing up configuration information
• Restoring previously-saved configuration information
• Printing current configuration information (creating a user-readable
file)
• Clearing (erasing) the current configuration
• Setting up the PCI Controller clustering option
• Changing the host ID for clustering
• Viewing the status of active background tasks such as drive
initialization, consistency check, rebuild