Chapter 6: Management with the CLI

 

 

online

Forces a drive from an Offline to an Online state.

 

Caution: Do this action only in extreme conditions. It

 

causes data corruption in most cases.

offline

Forces a drive from an Onine to an Offline state.

clear

Clears a drive's condition.

-p <PD ID>

Specifies the physical drive ID.

-c <count>

Specifies number of drives when their ID numbers are

 

sequential.

-t <condition type>

Specifies type of condition to clear. Requires the -a clear

 

option.

pfa

Clears a PFA condition on the drive.

staleconfig

Clears a stale configuration on the drive.

-d <drive type>

Specifies type of settings to modify. Requires the -a mod

 

option. Defaults to be all if -d is not specified.

sata

SATA related setting(s): writecache, rlacache, and

 

cmdqueuing.

 

The SATA settings apply to all SATA physical drives.

sas

SAS related setting(s): writecache, rlacache, readcache.

 

The SAS settings apply to all SAS physical drives.

all

Apply to both SATA and SAS drives where is applicable.

-s "<option>=<value>" Specifies which settings to change.

alias=

User-specified name, only for configured physical drives.

 

Up to 32 characters, containing alpha- numeric

 

characters, blank spaces and underscores. Beginning

 

and ending blank spaces are discarded.

The following global settings are for physical drives that support these features:

writecache=

Enables or disables write cache on the physical drive(s).

enable

 

disable

 

rlacache=

Enables or disables read look ahead cache on the

 

physical drive(s).

enable

 

disable

 

cmdqueuing=

Enables or disables command queuing on the physical

 

drive(s).

enable

 

disable

 

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Promise Technology EX8654, EX8658, EX8650, EX4650 manual Option. Defaults to be all if -d is not specified