
SCSI | Device | Identification | and Removal |
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This | service | aid | allows the user to choose a | SCSI | device | or | location | fr | |
and | to | identify | a device located in a system | unit | that | uses | a SCSI | Encl | |
Services | (SES) | backplane. |
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The service aid also does the following:
Ÿ | Generates | a | menu | displaying all SCSI devices. | |||||
Ÿ | Lists | the | device | and | all | of it's | sibling devices. | ||
Ÿ | List | all | SCSI | adapters | and | their | ports. | ||
Ÿ | List | all | SCSI | devices | on a | port. |
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SCSD | Tape | Drive | Service | Aid |
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This | service | aid | provides | a | means to | obtain the status or maintenance inf | |
from | a | SCSD tape | drive. Only some models of SCSI tape drive are supported | ||||
The | service | aid | provides | the | following | options: |
Ÿ Display time since a tape drive was last cleaned.
The time since the drive was last cleaned is displayed onto the scre addition, a message whether the drive is recommended to be cleaned displayed.
ŸCopy a tape drive's trace table.
The trace table of the | tape | drive is | written | to | diskettes or | a | fil | ||||||||||
must | be | formatted | for DOS. Writing | the | trace | table | may require sever | ||||||||||
The | actual number | of | diskettes | is | determined | by | the | size of | the | tr | |||||||
Label the diskettes as follows: |
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'TRACE[x].DAT' | (where | 'x' | is a sequential diskette number). The complete tr | ||||||||||||||
table consists of | the | sequential | concatenation | of all the diskette dat | |||||||||||||
When | the | trace | table | is | written | to | a | disk | file, | the | service | aid | pr | ||||
name. The | default | name | is: '/tmp/TRACE.<x>', where x is the AIX name of | ||||||||||||||
SCSD | tape | drive | being | tested. |
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Ÿ Display or copy a tape drive's log sense information.
The service aid provides options to display the log sense information t screen, to copy it to a DOS formatted diskette or to copy it to a name "LOGSENSE.DAT" is used when the log sense data is written on the diskette. The service aid prompts for a file name when the log sense chosen to be copied to a file.