3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) Introduction66 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1Adjusting BIOS Option Settings3BM includes a few settings that let you customize the behavior of the BIOSfor the selected controller. You can access these settings by selecting Settings> BIOS Settings from the 3BM BIOS Manager screen.Figure 30. 3BM BIOS Option SettingsPower-On Self Test (POST) Display OptionsDisplay Control. Specifies what level of detail to display on the start-upscreen.• Full displays all available information about the items attached to thecontroller, including available drives, hot spares, and configured units.• Unit Only displays only configured units.• Summary displays a one-sentence description of the items attached to thecontroller.Array View. Specifies what level of information to show about configuredunits on the start-up screen.• Expanded lists each unit and shows the specific drives that make up theunit.• Collapsed lists only the configured units.Pause Time. Sets the number of seconds that BIOS loading will pause todisplaying the RAID configuration before continuing to boot the operatingsystem. You can set a pause time of up to 10 seconds. The default is 6seconds.Full Screen Control. When you have many drives attached to a controllerand choose to display the Full level of detail, the information can extendbeyond a screens’ worth. The Full Screen Control setting lets you specifywhether to wait for a keystroke when the screen is full, before displayingadditional information. This option can be either No Key or Wait Key.
