| BIOCTL(8) | System Manager's Manual | BIOCTL(8) | 
| bioctl | device command [arg [...]] | 
$ bioctl arcmsr0 show 
Volume Status       Size         Device/Label   RAID Level Stripe 
================================================================= 
     0 Building     468G  sd0 ARC-1210-VOL#00       RAID 6  128KB  0% done 
   0:0 Online       234G         0:0.0 noencl <WDC WD2500YS-01SHB1 20.06C06> 
   0:1 Online       234G         0:1.0 noencl <WDC WD2500YS-01SHB1 20.06C06> 
   0:2 Online       234G         0:2.0 noencl <WDC WD2500YS-01SHB1 20.06C06> 
   0:3 Online       234G         0:3.0 noencl <WDC WD2500YS-01SHB1 20.06C06>
To create a RAID 5 volume on the SCSI 0:15.0 location on the disks 0, 1, 2, and 3, with stripe size of 64Kb on the first volume ID, using all available free space on the disks:
$ bioctl arcmsr0 create volume 0 0-3 64 5 0:15.0
To remove the volume 0 previously created at the SCSI 0:15.0 location:
$ bioctl arcmsr0 remove volume 0 0:15.0
| March 16, 2008 | NetBSD 7.1 |