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