Asus LSI SAS3442X-R - Manual (Page 59)

CFGGEN Commands A-11
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The FORMAT command does not complete and return to a shell prompt
until the format operation is complete. This may take a long time for a
large disk drive.
Command Line –
cfggen format [noprompt]
cfggen format bay [noprompt]
Parameters –
•
– Number of the controller targeted by this
command.
•
Bay – This option indicates that enclosure:bay values are specified
instead of SCSI ID values.
•
– SCSI ID of the hard disk drive to be formatted.
•
– The enclosure:bay value for the disk drive to be
formatted. These values can be obtained from the output of the
DISPLAY command.
•
noprompt – Suppresses display of warnings and prompts.
Program Return Value –
0x00 SUCCESS: command completed successfully.
0x01 FAILURE: command failed.
A.3.6 HOTSPARE Command
The HOTSPARE command creates a hot spare disk drive. One or two
hot spare disk can be created per controller. The capacity of a hot spare
disk must be greater than or equal to the capacity of the smallest disk in
the logical drive. An easy way to verify this is to use the DISPLAY
command.
The following rules must be observed when creating hot spare disks:
1. A hot spare disk cannot be created unless at least one IM or IME
volume is already created.