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SAS-3 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide
November 2012
Appendix A: Using the SAS-3 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility
Commands
For HDDs, you cannot add a SAS hot spare disk if the existing volumes on the controller use SATA disks. You
cannot add a SATA hot spare disk if the existing volumes on the controller use SAS disks.
For SSDs, you can add a SAS hot spare SSD to a volume with SATA SSDs and you can add a SATA hot spare SSD to a
volume with SAS SSDs, if the Integrated RAID firmware permits it.
The maximum permissible number of hot spare drives is two per controller.
You cannot add an SSD hot spare to a volume that has HDDs, and you cannot add an HDD hot spare to a volume
that has SDDs.
A.3.6.1
Command Line
sas3ircu <controller_#> hotspare [delete] <Enclosure:Bay>
A.3.6.2
Parameters
<controller_#> – The index of the controller on which you want to create the hot spare disk.
<Enclosure:Bay> – The Enclosure:Bay value for the hot spare disk drive. Determine these values from the
output of the DISPLAY command. DOS does not support addressing by Enclosure:Bay.
[delete] – This optional command deletes the hot spare disk at Enclosure:Bay.
A.3.6.3
Program Return Value
0x00
SUCCESS: Command completed successfully.
0x01
FAILURE: Bad command-line arguments or operational failure.
0x02
ADAPTER_NOT_FOUND: Cannot find specified adapter.
A.3.7
STATUS
The STATUS command displays the current status of any existing Integrated RAID volumes and the status of any
operation that is currently in progress on the selected controller. If no operation is in progress, SAS3IRCU prints a
message indicating this condition before it exits.
A.3.7.1
Command Line
sas3ircu <controller_#> status
A.3.7.2
Parameters
<controller_#> – The index of the controller with the volumes whose status you want to display.
A.3.7.3
Program Return Value
0x00
SUCCESS: Command completed successfully.
0x01
FAILURE: Bad command-line arguments or operational failure.
0x02
ADAPTER_NOT_FOUND: Cannot find specified adapter.
A.3.7.4
Sample Output
Following is an example of the information that the STATUS command returns. In this example, a background
initialization is in progress on IR Volume 1, and no operation is in progress on IR Volume 2.
Background command progress status for controller 0...
IR Volume 1
Volume ID : 322
PI Supported
: Yes
PI Enabled
: Yes
Current operation : Background Init
Volume status : Enabled