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A.3.6 HOTSPARE Command, cfggen, format, noprompt, format bay

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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. CFGGEN Commands Version 1.1 Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. A-11

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CFGGEN Commands
A-11
Version 1.1
Copyright © 2006, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
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
<controller #>
format
<SCSI ID> [
noprompt
]
cfggen
<controller #>
format bay
<enclosure:bay> [
noprompt
]
Parameters –
•
<controller #>
– 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>
– SCSI ID of the hard disk drive to be formatted.
•
<enclosure:bay>
– 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.