IBM 8688 manual Quick Test use Description

Abbreviated versions of the diagnostic tests are run in quick test mode. The selected tests are run in quick test mode if the tests support quick mode. You can use the quick test parameter in two ways:

Quick Test use	Description
Complete a system	Select the diagnostic tests you want to run, or press F7 to
test in a shorter time.	select all diagnostic tests on an AMIDiag menu. Set the
	Quick Test parameter to Yes. If you press F10 to run the
	tests, all tests except the tests that support Quick Test will
	run normally. The tests that support Quick Test run in quick
	mode. If your server has several IDE and SCSI hard disk
	and CD-ROM drives, testing all drives will take a long time.
	When you select Quick Test, the IDE and SCSI devices will
	be tested quickly, saving time.
Use quick test mode	Press F8 when the AMIDiag main menu is displayed to set
for fast system	this parameter to Yes and to select the tests defined as
verification	System Quick Test Components. You can either press F4 to
	script this test, or press F10 to run the tests in batch mode.

Execution count: The Execution Count menu appears when you select Execution Count from the Edit Batch Parameters menu.

Choose the number of times that you want to run the AMIDiag tests on the associated AMIDiag menus. You can run each test up to 255 times. If you have set the Passbound parameters (see the previous screen) to 5 and you set the repeat count to 5, the test will be run a total of 25 times.

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