[CentOS] OT: hardware: MegaCli and initializing a RAID

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 5/6/2016 11:36 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Got a new box I'm trying to set up. I configured the RAID from the
>> firmware, but "fast initialize" was sitting there at 0% (it's about 43
>> or 45TB). The first time I tried this, I said background, and rebooted
>> the system.
>>
>> And the stupid annoying alarm started up as the system came up.
>>
>> This time, having*finally*  figured out how to set up hot spares from
>> the WebBIOS, I suspended the fast initialization, and brought the
>> system up.
>>
>> Googling, I can't find a command to continue the initialization. Anyone
>> know of one, or is what I want to do rebuild the RAID?
>
> MegaCli64, which has to be installed.
>
That's what I'm using.

> the command lines are awful.

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