Areca ARC-1222 - McBIOS RAID Manager; 3.1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager

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3. McBIOS RAID Manager
The system mainboard BIOS automatically congures the following
SAS 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 SAS RAID control-
ler 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 a SAS 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guration
menu by pressing Tab or F6. If you do not wish to enter congu-
ration menu, press ESC to skip conguration immediately. When
activated, the McBIOS RAID manager window appears showing a
selection dialog box listing the SAS RAID controllers that are in-
stalled in the system.
The legend at the bottom of the screen shows you what keys are
enabled for the windows.
Bus/Dev/Fun= 1/0/0, I/0-Port=28000000h, IRQ=9, BIOS=CB00 : 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-1212 PCIEx4 RAID Controller - DRAM: 256(MB) / #Channels: 16
BIOS: V1.17b / Date: 2006-8-07 - F/W: V1.42 / Date: 2007-3-1