NEC Express 5800 Series User Manual page 48

Rescanning the system
A rescan detects devices that have been added to the system since the previous rescan or since the SSA CLI
was started, whichever is more recent.
Syntax:
Use the word rescan directly at the SSA CLI prompt, without any target device or parameters.
Example command:
=> rescan
Entering or deleting a license key
This command is not supported.
Optimizing controller performance for video
This command is not supported.
Creating a logical drive
Syntax:
<target> create type=ld [parameter=value]
<target> is usually a controller, but it can be an array if you are creating an additional logical drive on an
existing array.
If you want to create a logical drive on a group of physical drives that are not yet assigned to an array, you do
not have to build the array first. In the CLI, unlike in the GUI, the array is created automatically at the same
time as the logical drive.
The standard parameters used when creating a logical drive are described in the following table. If you do not
specify a particular parameter, the CLI uses the appropriate default value.
Parameter Acceptable values
[#:]#:#,[#:]#:#,...|[#:]#:#–
drives
[#:]#:#|all|allunassigned
0|1|1adm|1+0|1+0adm|5|50|6|60|?
raid
2|#
numberparitygroup
s
8|16|32|64|128|256|512|1024|default|?
ss
#|min|max|maxmbr|?
size
32|63|default|?
sectors
enable|disable|?
aa
sas|satalogical|sata|saslogical|parallelscsi|ss_s
drivetype
as|ss_sata|?
*Use only these units. Do not enter any extra text in the command to specify the units.
If you specify an array as the target, you can omit the drives parameter, because the drives are already
implicitly defined by the array ID. This feature is useful if you are entering the command directly into the CLI
console because you do not need to remember which drives belong to the array. When you write a batch file,
Comments
The default setting is all.
The default setting is the highest
RAID level that the controller model
and number of drives can support,
except 50 or 60 (which must be
specified deliberately).
The default value is 2.
Units are KB. *
The default setting depends on the
RAID level.
This parameter determines the
preferred size of the logical drive.
Units are MB. *
The default setting is max.
The default setting depends on the
operating system.
The default setting is enable.
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