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3. McBIOS RAID Manager
The system mainboard BIOS automatically congures 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 congure 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
congure 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 conguration
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 congurarion
menu by pressing Tab or F6. If you do not wish to enter congu-
ration menu, press ESC to skip conguration 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-1680 PCIEx4 RAID Controller - DRAM: 256(MB) / #Channels: 16
BIOS: V1.17b / Date: 2006-8-07 - F/W: V1.42 / Date: 2007-3-1
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