IBM R/S6000 7012 300 Series Operator's Manual page 83

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1. Remove both drives.
2. Set the SCSI address of the new drive to the SCSI address of the old drive.
3. Install the new drive in the old drive's location.
4. Install any other drives that were removed into their original location.
To prevent problems that may occur when running this service aid from disk, it is suggested
that this service aid be run from the diagnostics that are loaded from removable media when
possible.
Display/Alter Sector
This selection allows you to display and alter information on a disk sector. Care must be
used when using this service aid because inappropriate modification to some disk sectors
may result in total loss of all data on the disk. Sectors are addressed by their decimal sector
number. Data is displayed both in hex and in ASCII. To prevent corrupted data from being
incorrectly corrected, the service aid will not display information that cannot be read
correctly.
Display or Change Bootlist
This service aid allows the bootlists to be displayed, altered, or erased.
The system will attempt to perform an IPL from the first device in the list. If the device is not
a valid IPL device or if the IPL fails, the system will proceed in turn to the other devices in
the list to attempt an IPL.
Display or Change BUMP Configuration
This service aid is unique to the SMP system units and provides the following functions:
Display or Change Remote Support Phone Number
This function allows the remote support phone number to be displayed and altered.
Display or Change Diagnostics Modes
This function displays a dialog screen that lists the states of all the BUMP (Bringup
Micro–Processor) Diagnostic Flags. The states can be changed via the dialog screen.
Save or Restore Diagnostics Modes and Remote Support Phone Number
This function allows the diagnostics modes and remote support phone number to be
saved and restored. The location of the save area is to be defined.
Flash EPROM Download
This function updates the Flash EPROM.
Display Configuration and Resource List
This service aid displays the item header only for all installed resources. Use this service aid
when there is no need of seeing the VPD. (No VPD will be displayed.)
Introduction to Tasks and Service Aids
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