In order to be able to control the Apaptec AACRAID Raid controller in Ubuntu one need to install the program arcconf from third party as follows:
Ref: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Adaptec_arcconf_unter_Ubuntu_installieren
wget -O - http://archive.thomas-krenn.com/tk-archive.gpg.pub | sudo apt-key add -
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
wget http://archive.thomas-krenn.com/tk-main.list
wget http://archive.thomas-krenn.com/tk-optional.list
apt-get update
apt-get install arcconf

Getting info on the installed RAID controller:
arcconf getconfig 1