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:
• Series 7 PERC controllers
• S100 and S300 software RAID 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