Using the cli, Opening and closing a controller, Using the cli d-5 – Adaptec SATA AND SCSI RAID CONTROLLERS User Manual

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D-5

Command Line Interface

From the NetWare server console

To access the CLI from the NetWare server console, type aaccli at
the prompt. When the system displays the CLI> prompt, which
indicates that you can now use CLI commands.

Using the CLI

This section contains some examples of using CLI commands to
perform common tasks.

Opening and Closing a Controller

To prepare a controller to receive a CLI command, you first need to
open the controller. You may open only one controller at any time.

To open controller

AAC0

and prepare it to receive more CLI

commands, type:

CLI> open AAC0

The prompt changes to reflect the open controller, as shown in the
next example. When you have finished with the controller, close it
by typing:

AAC0> close

Displaying Information about Your Disks

Before creating any array, use the disk show space command to
display information about your disks.

Note:

Before you can create arrays, you need to initialize the

member drives.

In the following example, the Usage column indicates Free for each
disk, which means that the space on each disk consists of available
space.

AAC0> disk show space
Executing: disk show space
Scsi C:ID:L Usage

Size

----------- ---------- -------------

0:01:0 Free

64.0KB:8.47GB

0:02:0 Free

64.0KB:8.47GB

0:03:0 Free

64.0KB:8.47GB

0:04:0 Free

64.0KB:8.47GB

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