Adaptec 2200S, 2120S manual Terminology, Term Preferred Term Definition

Using the Command Line Interface

■From the UNIX/Linux prompt

To access the CLI from the UNIX/Linux prompt, display a window and type aaccli in any directory. When the system displays the CLI> prompt, you can use CLI commands. For the commands to work in any directory, the path in the startup file (.login or .cshrc) must include the directory where the software is installed. See your UNIX/Linux documentation for information on setting up directory paths in the .login and

.cshrc files.

Terminology

For a complete discussion of terminology, see the Glossary in this guide. Table 4-1lists and defines some terms used in this chapter and is presented here for your ease-of-use:

Table 4-1 Terminology Chart

Term	Preferred Term	Definition
container	array	A logical disk created from
		available space and made up of one
		or more segments on one or more
		physical disks.
chunk	stripe	Contiguous set of data written to
		one segment before the controller
		moves to the next segment.
freespace	available space	Space on an initialized disk that is
		not in use.
partition	segment	Contiguous area of a physical drive
		that makes up some or all of an
		array.
failover disk	hot spare	Drive available to replace a failed
		component in an array.

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