Determining the number of hard drives installed

[Paul Jones_3]

This question is related to my previous post, but I wanted to keep them separate.

I am using RDP to create an imaging process on a DL380-G3.

Is there a command line utility available, to determine the number of physical hard drives installed in a system?

Thanks,
Paul

[Gordon Leonard]

Not directly that I'm aware of. You could beat it out of the controller by using the ACR.exe and some batch magic. Fundamentally you start by configuring an array A with drive 0 RAID 0; this will return an error code. Now create an array A with drive 1 RAID 0; this will return an error code. The ACR.EXE is part of the Smart Start Toolkit along with the documentation and other great tools.

[Paul Jones_3]

Thanks for the advice. I did create the batch file, but it takes too long for my needs, because it has to delete then recreate the logical drive every time.

I found an old document on the web describignt he programming interface for older models of SmartArray controllers (3200, etc.) Is there a newer document available which describes the programming interface for newer controllers?

I think it would be pretty easy to create a very small DOS-based custom app which reports the number and sizes of drives attached to each controller.

Thanks,

Paul

[David Marks]

I've got the same problem you've got ...

If you come up with a good solution, please share it with the rest of us !

Thanks,

David