Promise Technology EX8658, EX8654, EX8650, EX4650 manual Logdrv

SuperTrak EX Series User Manual

A quick initialization writes to the first and last few megabytes of the logical drive. Typically, a quick initialization is completed in moments.

Options

-a <action>	Specifies the action to perform.
list	Displays a list of the initializations in progress or paused
	and their status. The default action.
start	Start an initialization.
stop	Stop an initialization.
pause	Pause an initialization.
resume	Resume an initialization.
-l <LD ID>	Specifies the logical drive to be initialized.
-q <size>	Specifies the amount of data in megabytes (MB) for a
	quick initialization.
1..1024
-p <pattern>	Specifies the pattern for a full initialization.
	The pattern can range from 1 to 128 bytes (HEX string),
	and is padded to even number of bytes, such as, fff
	padded to 0fff.
	Pattern is not supported for quick initialization.

Examples init

init -a stop -l0

init -a start -l0 -p5a5a0101

logdrv

Usage

logdrv [-a <action>] [-l <LdId>] [-c <Ld count>] [-v] logdrv -a locate -l <LdID>

logdrv -a mod -l <LdId> -s "<list of ld settings>"

Summary

The logdrv command displays information about the logical drives and changes logical drive settings.

To create a logical drive, see the array command on page 184.

Options

-a <action> Specifies the action to perform.

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