Adapter removed from boot order

Appears when an adapter is removed from the system or relocated behind a PCI bridge.

Persistent settings INVALID, defaults saved

Appears if none of the information in the NVRAM is valid.

Header

Provides static information text, which is typically the product title and version.

Menu

Provides the current main area menu, if applicable. This area includes a cursor for menu-item selection.

Main

Provides the data. Includes a cursor for item selection, horizontal scrolling, and vertical scrolling.

Footer

Provides general help information.

F2 = Menu

Sets cursor context to the menu selection area. Select a menu item and press Enter.

Arrow Keys = Select Item

Home/End = Select Item

Up, down, left, right movement to position the cursor.

+/- = Change [Item]

Items with values in [ ] brackets are modifiable. Numeric keypad ‘plus’ symbol (+) and numeric keypad ‘minus’ symbol (-) update a modifiable field to its next relative value.

Esc = Abort/Exit

Pressing the Esc key aborts the current context operation and/or exits the current screen. User confirmation is solicited as required.

Enter = Execute <Item>

Items with values in < > brackets are executable. Press Enter to execute the function associated to the field.

Adapter

Indicates the specific family of LSI Logic Host Adapters.

PCI Bus

Indicates the PCI bus number (range 0x00 - 0xFF, 0-255 decimal) assigned by the system BIOS to an adapter.

Dev/Func

Indicates the PCI Device/Function assigned by the system BIOS to an adapter.

An 8-bit value mapped as follows:

Bit # 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

Bits 2-0: Function (range 0 - 7)

Bits 7-3: Device (range 0x00 - 0x1F, 0 - 31 decimal).

Port Number

Indicates the I/O port number that communicates with an adapter. The system BIOS assigns this number.

IRQ

Indicates the interrupt request line used by an adapter. The system BIOS assigns this value.

NVM

Indicates whether an adapter has nonvolatile memory (NVM) associated with it. An adapter’s configuration is stored in its associated NVM.

Boot Order

Indicates the relative boot order (0 to 3) of an adapter. The Fusion-MPT PCI SCSI BIOS traverses up to four adapters in the specified order in search of bootable media. Access the “Boot Adapter List” menu to modify this item.

LSI Logic Control

Indicates whether an adapter is eligible for LSI Logic software control or is reserved for control by non-LSI Logic software.

RAID Status

Indicates the existence of a RAID array on an adapter and what state its in. “--” indicates no RAID array found on adapter.

Global Properties

Indicates global properties that are not associated with a specific adapter or device.

Adapter

Indicates the specific family of LSI Logic host bus adapters.

PCI Bus

Indicates the PCI bus number (range 0x00 - 0xFF, 0-255 decimal) assigned by the system BIOS to an adapter.

Dev/Func

Indicates the PCI Device/Function assigned by the System BIOS to an adapter. An 8-bit value mapped as follows:

Bit # 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

Bits 2-0: Function (range 0 - 7)

Bits 7-3: Device (range 0x00 - 0x1F, 0 - 31 decimal).

Boot Order

Specifies the relative boot order (0 to 3) of an adapter.

Minus symbol (-) decreases an adapter’s relative boot order. Plus symbol (+) increases an adapter’s relative boot order.

Current Status

Indicates whether an adapter in the boot list was enabled during the most recent boot. Disabled adapters and their attached devices are ignored by the Fusion-MPT PCI SCSI BIOS although they are still visible to the Configuration utility.

Next Boot

Specifies whether to enable an adapter upon the next boot. The Fusion-MPT PCI SCSI BIOS ignores disabled adapters and their attached devices although they are still visible to the Configuration utility.

Pause When Boot Alert Displayed

Specifies whether to pause for user acknowledgement after displaying an alert message during boot. The Boot Alert setting can be either No or Yes.

To continue after displaying a message, specify No. To wait for any key after displaying a message, specify Yes.

Boot Information Display Mode

Specifies the information display mode of the BIOS during boot. It controls how much information about adapters and devices are displayed during boot. The Display Mode setting can be either Terse or Verbose.

To display minimum information, specify Terse mode. To display detailed information, specify Verbose mode.

Negotiate With Devices

Sets the default value for synchronous and wide negotiations with specified devices. Options are: All, None or Supported.

Video Mode

Specifies the default video mode for the Configuration utility. The Video Mode setting can be either Color or Monochrome. The Monochrome setting enhances readability on a monochrome monitor.

Support Interrupt

Allows the ability to prevent a hook on INT40, if required.

Disable Integrated RAID

Tells the firmware not to perform a bus scan searching for RAID member devices. It also disables configuration of RAID arrays in the BIOS.

Restore Defaults

Press Enter to obtain default settings.

Device Properties

To view and modify device properties, press Enter.

RAID Properties

To view, create, delete or configure RAID arrays, press Enter.

Synchronize Whole Mirror

Copies the data from the primary copy of the mirrored array to the secondary copy.

Host SCSI ID

Indicates the SCSI identifier of an adapter [0-7] or [0-15]. It is recommended that this field be set to the highest-priority SCSI identifier, which is 7.

Note: 8-bit SCSI devices cannot see identifiers greater than 7.

SCSI Bus Scan Order

Indicates the order in which to scan SCSI identifiers on an adapter. Changing this item will affect disk letter assignment(s) if more than one device is attached to an adapter.

Note: Changing this item may conflict with an operating system that automatically assigns disk order.

Removable Media Support

Specifies the removable-media support option for an adapter. Three settings are allowed:

None indicates no removable-media support, whether the disk is selected as first (BBS) or is first in the scan order (non-BBS).

Boot Drive Only provides removable-media support for a removable hard disk drive if it is first in the scan order.

With Media Installed provides removable-media support regardless of the disk ordering.

CHS Mapping

Defines how the Cylinder Head Sector values are mapped onto a disk without pre-existing partition information. CHS Mapping includes two settings:

SCSI Plug and Play Mapping (default value) automatically determines the most efficient and compatible mapping.

Alternate CHS Mapping utilizes an alternate, possibly less-efficient mapping that might be required if a device is moved between adapters from different vendors.

Note: Neither of these options has any effect after a disk has been partitioned using the FDISK command. To change the CHS Mapping on a partitioned disk, use the FDISK command to delete all partitions. Then reboot the system to clear memory; otherwise, the old partitioning data will be re-used, thus nullifying the previous operation.

Caution: Ensure that the correct disk is the target of an FDISK command.

Spinup Delay (Secs)

Indicates the number of seconds to wait between spinups of devices attached to an adapter. Staggered spinups will balance the total electrical-current load on the system during boot. The default value is 2 seconds, with options between 1 and 10 seconds.

Secondary Cluster Server

Indicates whether an adapter has one or more devices attached that are shared with one or more other adapters, and therefore, the Fusion-MPT PCI SCSI BIOS should avoid SCSI Bus resets as much as possible.

Allows you to enable an adapter to join a cluster of adapters without doing any SCSI-bus resets. The default value is No.

Termination Control

Indicates whether an adapter has automatic-termination control, and if so, its current status. Two settings are available:

Auto: The adapter automatically determines whether it should enable or disable its termination.

Off: Termination at the adapter is off. The devices at the ends of the SCSI bus must terminate the bus.

Note: If Auto is grayed-out, the termination is automatic, not programmable.

Restore Defaults

To obtain default settings, press Enter.

SCSI ID

Indicates the SCSI identifier of the device.

Device Identifier

Indicates the ASCII device-identifier string extracted from the device’s Inquiry Data.

Sync Rate

Indicates the maximum synchronous data transfer rate, in mega transfers per second.

Mega Data Data Synchronous
Transfers Width=8 Width=16 Period nsec
per Second Mbytes/s Mbytes/s

---------- -------- --------- ----------

0=Async 0=Async 0=Async 0=Async

5 5 10 200

10 10 20 100

20 20 40 50

40 40 80 25

Data Width

Indicates the maximum data width in bits.

Scan ID

Indicates whether to scan for this SCSI identifier at boot time. This item can be used to ignore a device and to decrease boot time by disabling the inquiry of unused SCSI identifiers.

Set this option to No if there is a device that you do not want to be available to the system. Also, on a bus with only a few devices attached, the user can speed up boot time by changing this setting to No for all unused SCSI IDs.

Scan LUNs > 0

Indicates whether to scan for LUNs greater than zero for a device. LUN zero is always queried. Use this option if a multi-LUN device responds to unoccupied LUNs or to reduce the visibility of a multi-LUN device to LUN-0 only.

Set this option to No if you have problems with a device that responds to all LUNs whether they are occupied or not. If a SCSI device with multiple LUNs exists on your system but you do not want all of those LUNs to be available to the system, set this option to No to limit the scan to LUN 0 only.

Disconnect

Indicates whether to allow a device to disconnect during SCSI operations. Some (mostly newer) devices run faster with disconnect enabled, while some (mostly older) devices run faster with disconnect disabled.

SCSI Timeout

Indicates the maximum amount of time [0 to 9999] in seconds to wait for a SCSI operation to complete.

Since time-outs provide a safeguard that allows the system to recover if an operation fails, it is recommended to use a value greater than zero. A value of zero allows unlimited time for an operation to complete and could result in the system hanging (waiting forever) if an operation fails.

Press Enter, type in a value and then press Enter again to specify a new timeout value.

Queue Tags

Indicates whether to allow the use of queue tags for a device. Currently, the BIOS does not use queue tags. This item specifies queue-tag control to higher-level device drivers.

Boot Choice

Indicates whether this device might be selected as the boot device. This option is only applicable to devices attached to adapter number zero (in the boot list) on non-BBS systems. It provides primitive BBS flexibility to non-BBS systems.

Restore Defaults

Press Enter to obtain default settings.

Array

To mirror a disk that contains existing data, first select the disk with data to be retained; this drive becomes the primary copy of an integrated-mirrored array. When the first disk is selected, the BIOS Configuration utility prompts you to either Keep Data (F3) or Erase Disk (Delete).

Of the two different integrated-mirroring configurations, only RAID1 arrays can be created to keep previous data. A RAID1 array is a simple sector-to-sector physical mirror of one disk to another disk. This type has two members (not including hot spare); for this type, select Keep Data (F3).

The second type is the Integrated-Mirroring Enhanced or IME configuration. It has a striped layout. Each stripe unit has a secondary (or alternate) copy that is stored on a different disk. This type is used when there are two to six active members in RAID array. For this type, select Erase Disk (Delete).

For more information, see Section D.1, RAID Support.

SCSI ID

The SCSI ID by which the operating system or application addresses the array.

Size (MB)

The size of the array.

Array Disk?

Select a minimum of two disks in this column. A maximum of six disks can be selected; five is the maximum if a hot spare has been selected.

Hot Spare

(Optional) Select a single hot spare. The hot-spare disk provides additional protection by automatically replacing a member of the array, if one should fail.

Status

Lists the status of each physical disk in the array.

Predict Failure

Indicates whether SMART has determined that the disk will fail in the near future.

Size

• When not an array member, this option shows the physical size of the disk.
• When part of an array, this option shows the size used for the array.

The latter will be smaller because, when the array is created, the size is rounded down to factor in drive-size variances within the same class of disk.

Saving Configuration or Exiting the RAID Properties Screen

If finished with this screen, press the ESC key. If changes were made, you are prompted to save or discard the configuration. Saving the configuration creates the array.

Diagnostics Mode

Before the array is created, press the F4 key to display diagnostic codes under the Size column for each device on the system. These codes indicate the reason why the Configuration utility has disabled the selection of some disks. A disk may be disabled for the following reasons:

1. Problem with reading disk serial number
2. Disk does not support SMART
3. Unused
4. Disk does not support wide data, synchronous mode, or queue tagging
5. User disabled disconnects or queue tags for device (Device Properties)
6. Unused
7. Disk not big enough to mirror primary disk
8. Unused
9. Unused
10. Disk does not have 512-byte sector size
11. Incorrect device type
12. Hot Spare selection not big enough to be used as an array disk
13. Maximum disks already specified or maximum array size would be exceeded

Delete Array

Deletes the array currently displayed in the RAID Properties screen.

Add/Delete Hot Spare

Allows adding a hot-spare disk to an existing volume, as long as no hot-spare disks are defined. Also allows deleting a hot-spare disk and leaving the array otherwise operational.

Next Array

Enabled for illegal-configuration situations in which there is more than one array on this physical adapter. The RAID Properties screen allows display of one array at a time. This option allows you to display and operate on the next array found.

Activate Array

If there are two arrays on a physical adapter, this option allows you to select which array should be active. Only one array can be active at a time per physical adapter. Activating an array also causes all the remaining arrays found on the physical adapter to be deactivated.