• Gather information:

  MegaCli -LDInfo -Lall -aALL

  MegaCli -PDList -a0

  MegaCli -CfgDsply -aALL

  MegaCli -AdpGetProp AlarmDsply -aAll

  MegaCli -LDCC -ShowProg -L0 -a0 -Nolog

  MegaCli -FwTermLog -Dsply -a0

• To Clear Terminal Log

  MegaCli -FwTermLog -Clear -aN

• Check battery status

  MegaCli -AdpBbuCmd -aAll

• To find enclosure IDs:

  MegaCli -EncInfo -aN

• To view a particular physical drive:

  MegaCli -pdinfo -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

• To replace a drive:

  MegaCli -PDOffline -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

  MegaCli -PDMarkMissing -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

  MegaCli -PDPrpRmv -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

  ** swap the drive **

  MegaCli -PdReplaceMissing -PhysDrv [E:S] -ArrayN -rowN -aN

For example: to replace physical disk 0 in span 1 using disk ID 25 you would use the following command.

MegaCli -PdReplaceMissing -PhysDrv [:25] -Array1 -row0 -a0

MegaCli -PDRbld -Start -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

To rebuild a drive that has a "foreign" configuration:

• Mark the drive as good

MegaCli -PDMakeGood -PhysDrv [E:S]  -aALL

• Clear the foreign setting

MegaCli -CfgForeign -Clear -a0

• Set global hot spare - drive should start rebuilding after this

MegaCli -PDHSP -Set -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

• Stop consistency check:

  MegaCli -LDCC -Abort -L0 -a0 -Nolog

• Silence Alarm Beeps

  MegaCli -AdpSetProp -AlarmSilence -aN

• Show Rebuild Status

  watch -n 30 MegaCli -PDRbld -ShowProg PhysDrv [E:S] -a0