Galaxy 65 User Guide

D.5 Capturing the Event Log, Hardware, and Configuration Information

You can capture and save the following information to a file on your hard drive:

Entire event log

All hardware information

All configuration information

All debug information that is turned on.

This is useful if you want to print all of this information or attach it to an e-mail message.

The steps below use HyperTerminal as the terminal emulator software. If you use a different terminal emulator, your procedure may be different.

To capture the event log, hardware, and configuration information:

1With HyperTerminal up and running as your RS-232 interface terminal, from the System Menu, select Utilities Menu and press Enter.

The Utilities Menu displays.

2From the Transfer menu in HyperTerminal, select Capture Text. The Capture Text window displays.

3Enter the path and file name you want to use to store the log file contents. Save the file with a.txt file extension.

4Click Start.

5Select Dump Debug Info and press Enter.

6From the Transfer menu in HyperTerminal, select Capture Text, then select Stop.

7To capture the same information for the other SM, repeat steps1 through 6 from the computer connected to the other SM.

D.6 Displaying Drive Errors and

Resetting Error Statistics

You can display drive errors for a specific drive. You know a drive has errors when you see the letter E in the first column of the Display Drives screen.

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Galaxy Metal Gear 65 manual Displaying Drive Errors Resetting Error Statistics, Select Dump Debug Info and press Enter