User Manual
BC4000 Series RAID Controllers
02/13/06
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Swapping Arrays from the BIOS
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S
WAPPING
A
RRAYS
FROM
THE
BIOS
Using the
Swap Two Arrays
option, you can reorder arrays.
To swap arrays:
1.
Highlight
Swap Two Arrays
in the
Main
menu, and then press
Enter
.
2.
Use the arrow keys to highlight an array, and then press
Insert
to select it.
3.
Use the arrow keys to highlight another array, and then press
Insert
to select it.
4.
Press
Enter
to swap the arrays.
In this example, the RAID10 array was the first array created. However, to boot from the RAID5 array, the
arrays were swapped so that the RAID5 array is the first device listed.
Notes:
•
If you create more than one array, you can install the operating system to any of them. However,
a small amount of boot information is always written to a disk in the first array on your array list
regardless of which array you install the operating system on. If anything happens to that disk in
Array 1, you will not be able to boot. Broadcom recommends installing on a redundant array
type—such as RAID1 or RAID5—and then swapping that array into the first position if it is not
already Array 1.
•
This swap feature is
only available from the BIOS.
