Tools

Probing disk drives

This test checks all disk drives.

Symptom - The internal disk drives are reporting errors.

Solution - To check the status of the disk drives:

1.Enter:

/usr/sbin/shutdown -y -i0 -g0

This shuts down the system.

2.At the ok prompt, enter the following commands: setenv auto-boot? false

reset-all

The system resets.

3.Enter: probe-scsi

The program displays a message that is similar to the following:

LiD HA LUN

--- Port WWN ---

-----Disk description -----

0

0

0

21000004cf72f08f

SEAGATE

ST373405FSUN3660438

1

1

0

21000004cf721553

SEAGATE

ST373405FSUN3660438

2

2

0

21000004cf7213ea

SEAGATE

ST373405FSUN3660438

6

6

0

508002000016b5b1

SUNW

SUNWGS INT FCBPL9224

3

3

0

21000004cf72114b

SEAGATE

ST373405FSUN3660438

4

4

0

21000004cf7211ae

SEAGATE

ST373405FSUN3660438

5

5

0

21000004cf7214a3

SEAGATE

ST373405FSUN3660438

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note:

The actual response depends on the number of disk drives that are installed in the system. This example shows six disk drives and the disk drive backplane.

4.Fix any obvious errors, such as disconnected backplane cables or disk drives not completely inserted.

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Avaya V880 manual Probing disk drives