Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S/2200S Software User’s Guide

Using the CLI

Brief descriptions of many of the CLI commands are provided later in this chapter.

This section contains some examples of using CLI commands to perform common tasks.

■Opening and Closing a Controller

■Creating Single-Level Arrays

■Deleting Arrays

■Enabling Spares

■Displaying Controller Information

■Displaying Disk Information

■Displaying Array Information

Opening and Closing a Controller

Before any command can be sent to a specific controller that controller must first be opened. Only one controller may be open at any time.

To open controller AAC0 use the following command.

CLI> open AAC0

When you have finished with the controller close it with the following command.

AAC0> close

Creating Single-Level Arrays

This section explains how to create and work with single-level arrays. The RAID software supports four types of single-level containers:

■Volume

■RAID 0

■RAID 1

■RAID 5

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