Sun Microsystems V880, V890 manual Test descriptions

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Test descriptions

The following table lists some of the OpenBoot PROM On-Board firmware test commands. Note that for some commands, test results are displayed. For other commands, the ok prompt is displayed when the test is finished.

Command	Description
probe-ide	Displays the recognized V890 IDE DVD drive.
probe-scsi	Displays the recognized disk drives and backplanes.
probe-scsi-all	Displays the recognized disk drives, backplanes, tape drives,
	and V880 SCSI DVD drives.
show-devs	Displays all the devices known to the system directly beneath a
	given device in the device hierarchy. When using show-devs
	by itself, the command shows the entire device tree.
show-disks	Displays all disk devices.
test-all	Runs a series of tests on the network and on hardware
	components. The test may take several minutes to complete.
	You can use Stop+A to stop the tests.
test devalias	Runs the self-test method of the specified device. Use the
	devalias command to display a list of device aliases that can
	be tested. You must enter the full path name of the device alias
	to run the test. For example, to test the DVD-ROM drive, enter:
	test /pci@8,700000/scsi@1/disk@6,0:f
watch-clock	Tests the clock function.
watch-net	Runs a loopback test, a transceiver test, and a packet
	transmission test.
watch-net-all	Runs a loopback test, a transceiver test, a packet transmission
	test, and tests on the ethernet ports.

Additional references: See Sun OpenBoot 4.x Command Reference Manual at the following Sun documentation Web site for more information:

http://docs.sun.com

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