Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings
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Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings
3BM 2 includes the following settings that let you customize the behavior of
the BIOS for the selected controller. You can access these settings by selecting
Settings > BIOS Settings from the main 3BM screen.
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Power-On Self Test (POST) Display Options
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BIOS Loading Options
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To change BIOS settings
Power-On Self Test (POST) Display Options
Display Control.
Specifies what level of detail to display on the start-up
screen.
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Full
displays all available information about the items attached to the
controller, including available drives, hot spares, and configured units.
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Unit Only
displays only configured units.
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Summary
displays a one-sentence description of the items attached to the
controller.
Array View
.
Specifies what level of information to show about configured
units on the start-up screen.
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Expanded
lists each unit and shows the specific drives that make up the
unit.
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Collapsed
lists only the configured units.
Pause Time
.
Sets the number of seconds that BIOS loading will pause to
displaying the RAID configuration before continuing to boot the operating
system. You can set a pause time of up to 10 seconds. The default is 6
seconds.
Full Screen Control
.
When you have many drives attached to a controller
and choose to display the Full level of detail, the information can extend
beyond a screens’ worth. The Full Screen Control setting lets you specify
whether to wait for a keystroke when the screen is full, before displaying
additional information. This option can be either
No Key
or
Wait Key
.
BIOS Loading Options
Load Control.
This setting lets you suppress loading of the BIOS for this
controller. This can be useful for “headless” systems (without a monitor and
keyboard) that have many types of PCI controllers and do not need to boot
from the units.
