
AOC-USASLP-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual
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Notes
Viewing Physical Drive Properties
To view physical drive properties, follow these steps:
1. On the MANAGEMENT menu, select OBJECTS J PHYSICAL DRIVE.
2. Highlight a physical drive on the list that appears and press ENTER.
3. Select DRIVE PROPERTIES from the menu.
The drive properties are DEVICE TYPE (DISK), CAPACITY, PRODUCT ID, and REVISION NO.
These properties are view-only.
4-8 Forcing Drives Online or Offline
The MegaRAID BIOS CU enables you to force drives online or offline. You may want to
force a drive of a redundant array offline so that a hotspare drive will automatically
replace it. An auto rebuild will begin immediately if the MegaRAID BIOS CU finds a valid
hotspare drive to replace the offline drive.
You may need to force a drive online if it has gone offline due to a power failure. The
MegaRAID BIOS CU will not allow a drive to be forced online if its size is smaller than
the defined size of the array.
To force a drive online or offline, follow these steps:
1. On the M
ANAGEMENT menu, select OBJECTS J PHYSICAL DRIVE.
2. Highlight a physical drive that is a member of an array and press ENTER.
3. Select FORCE OFFLINE or FORCE ONLINE from the menu.
If the drive was online, its status changes to FAIL. If it was offline, its status changes
to ONLIN.
4-9 Configuring a Bootable Virtual Drive
The default boot virtual drive is LD 0. If you change the boot drive to another virtual
drive, the BIOS and the CU will preserve this change. However, if you delete the new
boot virtual drive, you must be sure to configure another virtual drive for booting. The
MegaRAID BIOS CU will not automatically select a different boot virtual drive.
Follow these steps to configure a bootable virtual drive:
1. On the M
ANAGEMENT menu, select CONFIGURE J SELECT BOOT DRIVE.
2. Select a virtual drive from the list to be the designated boot drive.
4-10 Deleting a Virtual Drive
The MegaRAID BIOS CU allows you to delete any single virtual drive defined in the
configuration (sometimes referred to as random deletion).
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