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Configuring the Server
Preparation for use and operation
5.3
Configuring the Server
This section contains information about configuring the server and installing the
operating system.
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Make sure that the energy saving functions are disabled in the
BIOS Setup
during server operation.
If you server is equipped with SCSI hard disk drives, you can skip the following
section.
5.3.1
Configuring the SATA RAID Controller
You may configure the RAID either before running ServerStart or with
Server-
Start
. It is recommended to use ServerStart.
Onboard SATA RAID controller
This RAID controller is a standard component of the system board. Configuring
is performed via the "LSI SATA Software RAID" utility.
PCI SATA RAID controller (FastTrak S150 TX4)
This controller is optional. Configuring is either performed via the BIOS config-
uration utility (calling CTRL-F during BIOS POST) or with the ServerStart CD
using PAM (Promise Array Management). More information is contained in the
"FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual" and in the "Promise Array Management
(PAM) for FastTrak S150 TX2plus, S150 TX4 and TX4000 User Manual" on the
ServerBooks CD in section "controllers", see also “Related publications” on
page 53.
Activating the hard disk drive write cache for the PCI controller
By default, the hard disk write cache is disabled. This presetting may be
changed. Consequently, not every data modification in main memory is written
to disk immediately, thus boosting system performance during write operations.
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CAUTION!
When a power failure occurs with enabled hard disk write cache, data
may be lost!
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The hard disk write cache should always be configured in the same way
for all disk drives.
