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 Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE), you can

find the RAIDCFG utility in \DELL\x32\TOOLKIT\TOOLS or in

\DELL\x64\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 7 controllers

• PERC S100 and PERC S300 software controllers (Not supported on 64-bit

systems)

• PERC 4/SC, PERC 4/DC, PERC 4/Di, PERC 4/IM (Supported only on

Windows PE 2.0)

• PERC 4e/DC, PERC 4e/Di, PERC 4e/Si (Supported only on Windows PE

2.0)

• PERC 5/E Adapter, PERC 5/I Integrated, PERC 5/i Adapter