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3. McBIOS RAID Manager
The system mainboard BIOS automatically congures the following
SATA RAID controller parameters at power-up:
• I/O Port Address
• Interrupt channel (IRQ)
• Adapter ROM Base Address
Use McBIOS to further congure the SATA RAID controller to suit your
server hardware and operating system.
3.1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager
This section explains how to use the McBIOS Setup Utility to con-
gure your RAID system. The BIOS Setup Utility is designed to be
user-friendly. It is a menu-driven program, residing in the rm-
ware, which allows you to scroll through various menus and sub-
menus and select among the predetermined conguration 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 conguration manager message remains on your
screen for about nine seconds, giving you time to start the cong-
ure menu by pressing Tab or F6. If you do not wish to enter con-
guration menu, press <ESC> to skip conguration immediately.
When activated, the McBIOS window appears showing a selection
dialog box listing the SATA RAID controllers that are installed in the
system.
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