Promise Technology Network Device EX8654 User Manual
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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
Specifies the physical drive ID.
-c
Specifies number of drives when their ID numbers are
sequential.
-t
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
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 "
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