www.3ware.com 1About This Guide3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA Controller CLI Guide provides instructions forconfiguring and maintaining your 3ware controller using 3ware’s commandline interface (CLI).This guide assumes that you have already installed your controller in yoursystem. If you have not yet done so, see 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAIDController Installation Guide for instructions.How this Guide is OrganizedThere are often multiple ways to accomplish the same configuration andmaintenance tasks for your 3ware controller. While this manual includesinstructions for performing tasks using the command line interface, twoadditional tools are available:3ware BIOS Manager3DM®2 (3ware Disk Manager)For information about these tools, see 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAIDController User Guide.Table 1: Sections in this GuideSection DescriptionIntroduction to 3ware CommandLine InterfaceInstallation, Features, ConceptsReference Describes Individual Commands