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WritePolicy=

Used to specify the write policy for the logical drive.

writethru

Writes are not cached

writeback

Writes are cached

ReadPolicy=

Used to specify read policy for the logical drive.

readahead

Reads extra data to reduce read times for sequential data.

readcache

Caches the reads in case the same request is made again.

nocache

No read cache.

parity=

Used to specify the method of parity distribution for RAID 5, 50, 6,

and 60.

left

Left asymmetric.

right

Right asymmetric.

Axle=

RAID 50, 3 to 32 drives per axle.

RAID 60, 4 to 32 drives per axle.

Range is 2 to 16 axles.

codec=

Used to specify the codec scheme for RAID 6 and 60.

p+q

q+q

PreferredCtrlId=

Used to specify which controller the LD is preferred for LUN

affinity. Valid value is 1 or 2. If value is not specified, LUN affinity

will be auto balanced.

PerfectRebuild=

Used to specify which logical drives supply to Perfect Rebuild.

enable

(Default)The maximum amount of logical drive which support

perfect rebuild is 30. If you select perfectrebuild=enable, only

sectors where write changes occurred are rebuilt.

disable

Perfect rebuild will not supply to this logical drive.

-c

Specifies the number of arrays to give a summary of when used