This menu allows you to view the topology of hard drives controlled by the LSI SAS3008IT, view the details about a single drive, format and verify hard drives, and set a hard drive as the first boot device.

Screen Overview

Figure 1 shows the SAS Topology screen.

Use ↑ and ↓ to select an item and press Enter.

Figure 1 SAS Topology screen

Table 1 describes the parameters on the screen.

Lighting Up Hard Drive Indicators

Select a hard drive and press Enter.

The indicators of the selected hard drive are on.

Formatting and Verifying a Hard Drive

Select a hard drive and press ALT+D.

The Device Properties screen of the selected hard drive is displayed and provides menus for formatting and verifying the hard drive, as shown in Figure 2.

• Format: formats a hard drive.
• Verify: displays the hard drive health status, which indicates whether there are damaged or bad sectors.Figure 2 Device Properties screen