MegaCli and MegaCli64 are the LSI utility used for Dell Perc 5 and other adapters isn't well documented. Here's some commands: MegaCli -AdpEventLog -GetEvents -f logfile -aALL What it does: Dump all events from the adapters event log to a file named logfile MegaCli -PDList -aAll | less What it does: Dump information about all Phsyical Disks (hence the PD), paged with less MegaCli -LDInfo -LAll -aA