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About This Guide
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Chapter 4, “Configuring Disks,” explains how to use the command line
interface to group disks into RAID-5 groups and how to display or
change information on groups of disks.
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Chapter 5, “Maintaining Disk Modules,” explains how to replace a
failed disk module and add a disk module array.
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Chapter 6, “Identifying Failed System Components,” explains how to
get status information on failed components other than disk modules.
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Chapter 7, “Caching,” explains how to determine, set up, and change
caching parameters.
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Appendix A, “Technical Specifications,” summarizes technical
information for the CHALLENGE RAID deskside storage system.
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Appendix B, “The raid5 Command Line Interface,” lists and explains
all parameters of the raid5 command.
An index completes this guide.
Conventions
In command syntax descriptions and examples, square brackets ( [ ] )
surrounding an argument indicate an optional argument. Variable
parameters are in italics. Replace these variables with the appropriate string
or value.
In text descriptions, IRIX filenames are in italics. The names of keyboard
keys are printed in boldface typewriter font and enclosed in angle brackets,
such as
<Enter>
or
<Esc>
.
Messages and prompts that appear on-screen are shown in fixed-width type.
Entries that are to be typed exactly as shown are in boldface fixed-width
type.
