Areca ARC-1200 - 3. McBIOS RAID Manager; 3.1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager

BIOS CONFIGURATION
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3. McBIOS RAID Manager
The system mainboard BIOS automatically congures 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 congure 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
congure 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 conguration
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 congure menu
by pressing Tab or F6. If you do not wish to enter conguration
menu, press ESC key to skip conguration immediately. When
activated, the McBIOS window appears showing a selection dialog
box listing the SATA RAID controllers that are installed in the sys-
tem.The legend at the bottom of the screen shows you what keys
are enabled for the windows.
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