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Vess A2000 Series NVR Storage Appliance
Promise Technologies
Summary
The ctrl command displays controller information and changes controller settings.
Options
-a <action>
Specifies the action to perform.
list
(Default) Lists controller information.
mod Changes controller settings.
clear Clears controller conditions.
-i <ctrl ID>
Specifies the controller ID.
-c <ctrl count> Controller count. Required for information on multiple controllers.
-s “<option>=<value>” Specifies which settings to change.
alias= A user-specified name for the controller.
Up to 48 characters long, alpha- numeric characters, blank spaces and underscores
The beginning and ending blank spaces are discarded.
coercion= Enables or disables disk coercion. Disk coercion will truncate the size of the physical
drives. Makes different size drives appear to be the same size. For example, a 90.1 GB drive
would appear as the same size as an 89.8 GB drive. Important when using drives of different
manufacturers for rebuilds or as hot spares.
enable
disable
coercionmethod= The method of coercion.
GBTruncate
Truncates the drive to the nearest 1-billion byte boundary.
