Using the Command Line Interface

Before opening a controller, you may want to use the controller list command to display a list of controllers. In the following example, the Adapter Name column indicates that AAC0 is the name of the controller installed on the computer. The example also indicates the controller’s path, which is \\.\

CLI> controller list

Executing: controller list

 

Adapter Name

Adapter

Type

Availability

------------

------------

------------

\\.\AAC0

Adaptec

xxxxx

read/write

Displaying Disk Information

The CLI enables you to monitor or manage disk attributes, prepare a disk for use by a controller, and detect defects using the following CLI commands:

■disk list

Disk Attribute:

Indicates:

SCSI device ID

An ID number assigned to each SCSI device

 

attached to a SCSI channel

device type

Whether the device is a disk, printer, scanner,

 

and so on

removable media

Whether the media is removable (diskette or

 

CD-ROM, for example)

vendor ID

Name of a device vendor

product ID

Device model number

revision number

Device revision number

number of blocks

Total number of disk block available on a

 

device

bytes per block

Number of bytes for each block

disk usage

Either MS-DOS, Initialized, Not Initialized,

 

Offline, or Unknown

shared channel

N/A

 

 

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