Problem-Isolation And Debug Commands - IBM Netfinity ServeRAID-3H Installation And User Manual

Problem-isolation and debug commands

The IPSSEND problem-isolation and debug commands include the following:
certify Use the certify function to verify the media of a physical drive. When the program finds a
media error, it reassigns the sectors. A summary of reassignments and PFA errors
appears upon completion of the verification.
Supported operating system: DOS
Command:
ipssend certify controller channel sid
where:
controller is the ServeRAID controller number (1–12)
channel is the channel number for the device (1, 2, or 3)
sid is the SCSI ID for the device (0–15)
eraseevent Use the eraseevent function to clear all logged entries in the designated event log. See
GETEVENT help for information about the contents of the device event log and the
controller soft and hard event logs.
Supported operating systems: Windows NT, OS/2, NetWare, Linux, OpenServer,
UnixWare, and DOS
Command:
ipssend eraseevent controller options
where:
controller is the ServeRAID controller number (1–12)
options is the designated event log:
– DEVICE for the device event log
– SOFT for the ServeRAID controller soft event log
– HARD for the ServeRAID controller hard event log
getbst Use the getbst function to display the number of bad stripes in the bad stripe table for
each logical drive.
Supported operating systems: Windows NT, OS/2, NetWare, Linux, OpenServer,
Unixware, and DOS
Command:
ipssend getbst controller
where:
controller is the ServeRAID controller number (1–12)
fmstatus Use the fmstatus function to display the progress of a format operation currently
processing.
Supported operating system: DOS
Command:
ipssend fmstatus controller channel sid
where:
controller is the ServeRAID controller number (1–12)
channel is the channel number for the device (1, 2, or 3)
sid is the SCSI ID for the device (0–15)
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