Brief cheat sheet for Adaptec arcconf CLI

Gather information

show adapter information

arcconf getconfig 1 ad

show logical device information

arcconf getconfig 1 ld

show physical disk information

arcconf getconfig 1 pd

show all information

arcconf getconfig 1 al

get all device ids for SSDs

arcconf getconfig 1 pd | awk '{ if ( $2 ~ /Channel,Device/ ) {pos=$NF}; if ( $1 ~ /SSD/ && $3 ~ /Yes/) {print pos}}' | cut -d\( -f1

get all device ids for non-SSDs

arcconf getconfig 1 pd | awk '{ if ( $2 ~ /Channel,Device/ ) {pos=$NF}; if ( $1 ~ /SSD/ && $3 ~ /No/) {print pos}}' | cut -d\( -f1

get all device ids for WDC disks

arcconf getconfig 1 pd | awk '{ if ( $2 ~ /Channel,Device/ ) {pos=$NF}; if ( $1 ~ /Vendor/ && $3 ~ /WDC/) {print pos}}' | cut -d\( -f1

get available logical device numbers

arcconf getconfig 1 ld | awk '/^Logical device number/ {print $NF}'

short list of all physical disks

arcconf getconfig 1 pd|egrep "Device #|State\>|Reported Location|Reported Channel|S.M.A.R.T. warnings|Serial"

Manipulate arrays

delete logical device

arcconf delete 1 logicaldrive all

create RAID6 volume with default stripe size on devices all non-SSD devices

arcconf create 1 logicaldrive name data method build rcache ron wcache wb max 6 $(arcconf getconfig 1 pd | awk '{ if ( $2 ~ /Channel,Device/ ) {pos=$NF}; if ( $1 ~ /SSD/ && $3 ~ /No/) {print pos}}' | cut -d\( -f1)

create JBOD on two devices

arcconf create 1 jbod 0,22 0,23

FAI approach

software raid

arcconf delete 1 logicaldrive all noprompt
# first for HDD
arcconf create 1 jbod $(arcconf getconfig 1 pd | awk '{ if ( $2 ~ /Channel,Device/ ) {pos=$NF}; if ( $1 ~ /SSD/ && $3 ~ /No/) {print pos}}' | cut -d\( -f1)
# then for SSD (no real reason, but to keep them separated for now
arcconf create 1 jbod $(arcconf getconfig 1 pd | awk '{ if ( $2 ~ /Channel,Device/ ) {pos=$NF}; if ( $1 ~ /SSD/ && $3 ~ /Yes/) {print pos}}' | cut -d\( -f1)