Quick Reference Guide

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RAIDCFG
This section documents the Deployment Toolkit (DTK) RAID configuration
utility. The RAIDCFG utility provides a single command line tool that can
configure all supported RAID controllers.
Features
The RAID configuration utility has the following general features:
• Displays help and usage information.
• Reads configuration options from the Command Line Interface (CLI)
parameters.
• Enumerates RAID controllers, physical disks, and virtual disks.
• Creates and deletes virtual disks.
• Logs activity to a given filename.
• Returns specific error codes and messages.
• Assigns and unassigns global and dedicated hot spares.
NOTE: In Microsoft
®
Windows
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Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE),
you can find the RAIDCFG utility in \DELL\TOOLKIT\TOOLS. In Linux, you can find it
in /opt/dell/toolkit/bin.
Supported RAID Controllers
The RAIDCFG utility supports the following RAID controllers:
• PERC 3/DC, PERC 3/QC, PERC 3/SC
• PERC 4/SC, PERC 4/DC, PERC 4/Di, PERC 4/IM
• PERC 4e/DC, PERC 4e/Di, PERC 4e/Si
• PERC 5/E Adapter, PERC 5/I Integrated, PERC 5/i Adapter
• CERC SATA 1.5/6-Channel (CH), CERC SATA 1.5/2S, and PERC 3/Di
(These controllers are supported in Linux only.)
• SAS 5iR Integrated, SAS 5iR Adapter