When your motherboard BIOS is configured so that your computer boots in LEGACY BIOS mode, information about your Adaptec RAID controller appears before your motherboard logo is displayed.
Additionally, a message "Press <Ctrl><A> for Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility" appears when your computer starts up.
However, if your computer boots in UEFI mode, this message will not appear and you will therefore not have access to the "Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility" utility of your RAID controller.
To overcome this problem, it is possible to access the settings of this utility installed on your Adaptec RAID controller from a BIOS menu on your motherboard.
Note: the options that are available via the special option present in the BIOS of your motherboard are almost the same as those of the "Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility". You will therefore easily find the desired settings.
When starting your computer, press "Del" to enter the BIOS / firmware of your motherboard.
Then, in the case of the Asus ROG motherboard BIOS, go to the "Advanced" tab and go down to the bottom of the page.
At the bottom of the page, you should find an option: PMC maxView Storage Manager.
Click: Scan For Controllers.
Click on the name of your controller: Controller #0 Adaptec 6405.
Note: in our case, we have an Adaptec RAID 6405 controller.
As you can see, you will have access to 3 sections:
In the "Logical Device Configuration" section (or "Array Configuration Utility" in "ACU"), you can:
Source : Adaptec RAID Controller Installation and User’s Guide | Adaptec.
In the "Manage Arrays" section, you can list the RAID arrays configured on your Adaptec RAID controller.
In our case, there is only one called "Virtualization", whose RAID type is "RAID5" and the usable capacity (size) is 3.6 TB.
If you click on a RAID array, you will be able to access the different options concerning it.
In the "Array Properties" section, you can find:
The "Delete Array" option allows you to delete the RAID array, as well as the RAID logical disks created on it.
The "Force Online" option allows you to force the currently selected RAID logical disk to be put online so that it is visible to the operating system.
This can be useful if a RAID logical drive does not currently appear in your operating system.
In the "Power Settings" section, you will be able to change the Power Management Status of the Adaptec RAID controller.
This helps reduce power consumption when an array is not used for at least a certain period of time.
In the "Cache Settings" section, you can enable or not the read and/or write cache:
After changing the settings, click "[SUBMIT]" to save the changes.
The "Failover Assignments" option allows you to assign physical disks as "Spares" for this RAID array.
Thus, in the event of failure of a physical disk in this array, one of these "Spares" will be used to automatically rebuild the missing disk.
The "Rebuild Array" option allows you to rebuild the existing RAID array.
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