Q-Logic 8200 Windows Diagnostic Test Descriptions, Hardware Test, Register Test, Interrupt Test

2–Configuring NIC

NIC TroubleShooting/Diagnostics

Windows Diagnostic Test Descriptions

This section provides descriptions of the following Windows diagnostic tests:

Hardware Test

Register Test

Interrupt Test

Loopback Test

Link Test

Hardware Test

The hardware test checks the status of various hardware blocks, including DMA engines, receive engine, and on-board processor meta cores.

Register Test

The register test performs device register read/write accesses.

Interrupt Test

The interrupt test checks the ability of the hardware to create an interrupt and the ability of the driver to process the interrupt by forcing the generation of a predetermined number of interrupts. The test succeeds if the device generates the interrupts and the driver processes all interrupts expected.

Loopback Test

The loopback test is a diagnostic tool that routes transmit data through a loopback connector back to the same adapter.

Link Test

The link test inspects the link status (up or down) by checking the physical communication channel between the host and the firmware.

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