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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines .......................................................... 1-1
1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines.....................................................................1-1
1-2 General Safety Guidelines............................................................... 1-1
1-3 An Important Note to Users ............................................................. 1-1
Chapter 2 Connectors, Jumpers and Indicators............... 2-1
2-1 Front Connectors and Pin Definitions ............................................ 2-1
Internal SAS Connectors ........................................................................ 2-1
I-Button ...................................................................................................2-1
2-2 Front Jumper Locations and Pin Definitions................................. 2-2
2-3 RAID Minimum Drive Requirements ..............................................2-3
Chapter 3 RAID Modes, Firmware and Drivers................... 3-1
3-1 RAID Modes.......................................................................................3-1
3-2 Getting Firmware Downloads..........................................................3-2
3-3 Flashing Firmware.............................................................................3-2
3-4 Downloading RAID Mode Drivers................................................... 3-2
3-5 Activating RAID Modes in OPROM BIOS .....................................3-3
Chapter 4 MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility..............4-1
4-1 Performing a Quick Configuration ..................................................4-1
4-2 Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives ..........................................4-1
Starting the MegaRAID BIOS CU ........................................................... 4-2
Using Easy Configuration ....................................................................... 4-2
Using New Configuration and View/Add Configuration...........................4-5
Creating a Global Hotspare Drive ........................................................... 4-6
Initializing Virtual Drives.......................................................................... 4-7
First Initialization Method .....................................................................4-7
Second Initialization Method ................................................................4-8
4-3 Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead Policies...4-9
4-4 Rebuilding a Drive...........................................................................4-10
4-5 Hot Plug Support.............................................................................4-11
4-6 Checking Data Consistency ..........................................................4-11
4-7 Viewing and Changing Device Properties................................... 4-12
Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties ...........................................4-13
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