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-p <PD ID list> Species physical drives to be used in an array, with -a add option. PD IDs are
specied individually or separated by comma. Sequential group of physical drives are specied by
placing a ~ between numbers such as 1~6. This will include physical drives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
-s “<option>=<value> Species array settings when creating (add) or modifying (mod) an
array. Options are comma separated.
alias= A user-specied array name. Up to 32 characters, alpha-numeric characters, blank spaces
and underscores. Beginning and ending blank spaces are discarded.
mediapatrol= Enables or disables Media Patrol for this array.
enable The default is enable.
disable
pdm= Enables or disables PDM for this array.
enable The default is enable.
disable
-l “<option>=<value>” Species logical drive settings when adding a logical drive to an
existing array (addld) or during array creation (add). Options are comma separated.
<LD ID list> Species a list of Logical Drive IDs. Requires the -a delld option.
ID= Assigns a specic ID to an array. Overrides automatic ID assignment. Valid
values are 0-255.
Alias= A user-specied name for the logical drive. Raid= Species logical drive RAID level.
0 Striping.
1 Mirroring on two drives.
5 Parity, requiring 3 or more drives.
10 Mirroring on even number of drives.
1e Extended mirroring, requiring 2 or more drives.
50 Striping on multiple RAID 5, requiring 6 or more drives.
6 Allow two drive failure, requiring 4 or more drives.
60 Striping on multiple RAID 6, requiring 8 or more drives.
Warning
When you delete a disk array, you also delete any logical
drives that belong to it, along with the data they contain.
When you initialize a logical drive, you delete all data on the
logical drive.
Back up any important data before deleting a disk array or
logical drive.