Monitoring RAID with Solaris 10 x86 and Dell PowerEdge 2650 PERC 3/Di

Hello,
I have a PowerEdge 2650 with the PERC 3/Di RAID controller.
The OS installed is Solaris 10 8/07 U4.
Currently RAID is configured through the BIOS and it works fine, but I have no way to monitor the status of the drives.
Is there a command to show me the status of the drives? Drivers I need to install?
TIA,
Chris

I'm just now starting to delve into the X86 servers, and I am not a fan of hardware RAID in general, but on the SPARC side, you would use 'raidctl' to interact with hardware RAID environments.

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