BIOS Terminology

The terminology used by Storage Management can be different from the terminology used in the controller BIOS. The following sections show some of these differences.

BIOS Terms and the PERC 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC, and 4/Di Controllers

Table 15-1.  Naming convention differences between Storage Management and PERC BIOS Configuration Utility

Storage Management

PERC BIOS Configuration Utility for the 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC, and 4/Di Controllers

Controller

Adapter

Virtual Disk

Logical Drive

Physical disk

Physical Drive

Reconfigure Virtual Disk

Reconstruct

BIOS Terms and the CERC SATA1.5/6ch and CERC SATA1.5/2s Controllers

Table 15-2. Naming convention differences between Storage Management and PERC BIOS Container Configuration Utility (CCU) 

Storage Management

CERC SATA1.5/6ch, and CERC SATA1.5/2s Controllers

Virtual Disk

Container

Physical disk

Drive

Check Consistency

Scrub

Stripe Size

Chunk Size

Concatenation

Volume

Concatenation of RAID 1

Volume

RAID 0

RAID-0 (Stripe)

RAID 1

RAID-1 (Mirror)

Diagnostics

Verify