IBM RS/6000 7043 43P manual Removal, Aid, Ses, Tape

SCSI	Device	Identification		and Removal
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.

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.

SCSD	Tape	Drive	Service	Aid
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:

'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.

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.

9-347043 43P Series User's Guide