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Drive commands

  • Download drive firmware
    The download drive firmware command downloads a firmware image to a drive.
  • Recover disabled drive ports
    The recover disabled drivePorts command recovers disabled drive ports.
  • Replace drive
    The replace drive replacementDrive command replaces a drive in a volume group.
  • Revive drive
    The revive drive command forces the specified drive to the Optimal state.
  • Save drive channel fault isolation diagnostic status
    The save driveChannel faultDiagnostics file command saves the drive channel fault isolation diagnostic data that is returned from the start driveChannel faultDiagnostics command.
  • Save drive log
    The save allDrives logFile command saves the drive logs to a file.
  • Set drive hot spare
    The set drive hotSpare command assigns or de-assigns one or more drives as a hot spare.
  • Set drive service action allowed indicator
    The set drive serviceAllowedIndicator command turns on or turns off the Service Action Allowed indicator light on a drive or drives in drive trays that support the Service Action Allowed indicator light feature.
  • Set drive state
    The set drive operationalState command sets a drive to the Failed state.
  • Set FIPS drive security identifier
    The set drive securityID command is used to reset a FIPS drive back to the original manufacturer settings.
  • Set foreign drive to native
    The set drive nativeState command adds the missing (foreign) drives back into their original volume group and to make them part of the volume group in the new storage array.
  • Show drive
    The show allDrives command returns information about the drives in the storage array.
  • Show drive download progress
    The show allDrives downloadProgress command returns the status of firmware downloads for the drives that are targeted by the download drive firmware command or the download storageArray driveFirmware command.
  • Show drive performance statistics
    The show allDrives performanceStats command returns information about drive performance.
  • Show replaceable drives
    The show replaceableDrives command shows all replaceable drives in a storage array.
  • Start drive channel fault isolation diagnostics
    The start driveChannel faultDiagnostics command runs the drive channel fault isolation diagnostics and stores the results.
  • Start drive initialize
    The start drive initialize command starts a drive initialization.
  • Start drive locate
    The start drive locate command locates a drive by turning on an indicator light on the drive.
  • Start drive reconstruction
    The start drive reconstruct command starts reconstructing a drive.
  • Start drive erase
    The start drive erase command erases all of the data from one or more drives.
  • Start FDE secure drive erase
    The start secureErase drive command erases all of the data from one or more full disk encryption (FDE) drives so that they can be reused as FDE drives.
  • Stop drive channel fault isolation diagnostics
    The stop driveChannel faultDiagnostics command stops the drive channel fault isolation diagnostics, which stops the start drive channel fault isolation diagnostics command before it completes.
  • Stop drive locate
    The stop drive locate command turns off the indicator light on the drive that was turned on by the start drive locate command.