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Commissioning and Operation
Configuring the Server
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.
5.3.1
Configuring the SCSI RAID Controller
You may configure the RAID either before running
ServerStart
or with
ServerStart
.
Usage of
ServerStart
is recommended.
Configuring the SCSI RAID controller is either performed via the BIOS configu-
ration utility (calling CTRL-h during BIOS POST) or with the
ServerStart
CD using
GAM
(Global Array Management).
More information is contained in the controller documentation on the
Server-
Books
CD in section "controllers", see also
“Related publications” on page 107
.
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Note on
SCSI-IDs
:
Please note that the SCSI-IDs for the hot-plug hard disk drives are
permanently assigned (from left to right: channel A: from A0 to A2 and
channel B: from B0 to B1).
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Descriptions of operating systems not covered in the RAID controller
manual are provided in the appropriate readme files on the driver CDs.
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If the RAID functionality is not activated on the RoMB, the onboard SCSI
controller should be configured using CTRL-c during BIOS-POST.