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array-info

array-info(1)															     array-info(1)

NAME

       array-info - check the status of a HP (Compaq) SmartArray controller

SYNOPSIS

       array-info -d array_device_path [-a|-l|-A|-c|-s|-L|-h]

DESCRIPTION

       Array-info is a command line tool to retrieve informations and logical drives status from several RAID controllers (currently HP Compaq IDA
       and CISS and MD).  It displays informations about the firmware version, Rom revision, number of physical and logical  drives  on  the  con-
       troller, aswell as the fault tolerance, size, number of physical disks and status for each logical drive.

OPTIONS

       --device | -d
	      Path to array device, e.g. /dev/ida/c0d0 or /dev/cciss/c0d1

       --all-drives | -a
	      Show informations about all drives

       --logical drive | -l
	      Show informations about selected logical drive

       --show-ctrl | -c
	      Show informations about controller

       --show-logical | -L
	      Show informations about logical drives

       --show-physical | -p
	      Show physical device informations

       --show-status | -s
	      Show status of logical drives

       --show-all | -A
	      Show all informations

       --version | -V
	      Show version

       -h     Show help about options

COPYRIGHT

       This  manual page was written by Raphael Pinson <<raphink@ubuntu.com>>.	Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this docu-
       ment under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

								    2006-12-15							     array-info(1)

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