Promise Technology Vess A Series Product Manual page 203

Vess A6120 Product Manual
During PDM, the data on the suspect drive is transferred to the replacement drive while the
logical drive remains online.
After PDM, the replacement drive becomes part of the disk array. The suspect drive become
unconfigured and any PFA condition remains on it.
This command starts, stops, pauses, and resumes a PDM and monitors the progress of a
running PDM.
A PFA drive cannot be used until you clear the PFA condition. To clear the PFA conditon of a
physical drive, please refer to phydrv command. Note that the destination drive must be the
same media type, HDD or SSD, as the other physical drives in the disk array.
Options
-a <action>
list
start
stop
pause
resume
-d <DA ID>
-s <sequence Num>
-p <PD ID>
Examples
pdm
pdm -a start -d0 -s2 -p10
pdm -a stop -d0 -s2
Specifies the action to perform.
(Default) Displays the active and paused PDMs and their status.
Starts a manual PDM.
Stops a PDM.
Pauses a PDM.
Resumes a paused PDM.
Specifies which disk array on which to perform the PDM.
Specifies the sequence number of the suspect drive.
Specifies physical drive ID of the replacement drive.
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