Ciprico 6500 Operation Guidelines, Array Power Up and Built-In Self-Test, Bist, Initial Display

Chapter 3 Display/Operation Panel

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Operation

Guidelines

Array Power-

Up and Built-In

Self-Test

(BIST)

Initial Display

When the array is powered up, the display/operation panel turns on and a Built- In Self-Test (BIST) is executed. Text descriptions for most of the tests briefly appear on the panel as the tests are performed. This process takes approximately 10 seconds, after which the drives in the array are started and begin to spin up. When this process is finished, the display should look like this:

Normally, the initial display appears as shown above: 21/,1((or assigned array name) 67$786￿2.. If a failure occurs with any of the drives in the array, however, the bottom line will show the status of each of the nine drives in descending order, from left to right. For example, an array with a failed drive

6would display: 555)￿5555￿5(data drives 9876-5432 and parity drive 1). The down arrow at the right end of the top line indicates that menu selections are available only in that direction.

Tree-

Structured

Menu

The first level in the tree (below the initial display, entered by pressing the down arrow once) is the )81&7,216(/(&7level, which divides the menu tree into the categories shown in the figure below.

“Menu Structure (1 of 5—Array Options)” on page 3-6illustrates the entire menu structure. The “Display Key” on “Menu Structure (2 of 5—Array Options)” on page 3-7explains which arrows are enabled for each menu.

Note See the Display/Operation Panel Quick Reference included with the equipment for an abbreviated version of the diagrams on the following pages.

Figure 8 Function Selection Options

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