Ciprico 6500 manual Built-In Self Test Bist Failures, Indicators

Chapter 4 Maintenance, Troubleshooting & Hardware Replacement

Failure Detection and Troubleshoot-ing Guidelines Page 4 - 7

Built-In Self

Test (BIST)

Failures

During power-up, or after you push the RESET button on the display/operation panel, the array will automatically run a Built-In-Self-Test. This test thoroughly exercises array hardware and checks the following:

•Controller board components and functionality

•Display/operation panel functionality

•Firmware code checksum

•SCSI termination for single-ended arrays

You can reset the array and run BIST whenever you want to check the array internals.

Indicators

•The audible alarm will sound, if enabled. After the alarm has begun to sound, it will go silent after any key is pressed. The alarm cannot be disabled in BIST mode.

•A BIST error will appear on the display/operation panel. A typical BIST error looks like this:

Figure 16 Sample BIST Error Message

You have two options when a BIST error occurs:

•Choose to continue with the BIST—The failing test is skipped, and the rest of BIST is run.

•Choose to loop on the error— The failing test is retried infinitely; a percentage of error will be displayed. Press SELECT to stop the looping.

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