Start Drive Channel Fault Isolation Diagnostics - IBM System Storage DS3000 Programming Manual

Parameter
file
Notes
The DQ trace information is written to a compressed file with an extension of .zip. The file name is a
combination of a user-defined file name and the storage subsystem identifier (SAID). A constant of "dq" is
also added to the file name. The complete file name has this form: user_defined_file_name-SAID-dq.zip
The compressed file contains the information listed in this table.
File Name
user_provided_file_name-SAID-
A.dq
user_provided_file_name-SAID-
B.dq
user_provided_file_name-SAID-
trace_description.xm

Start Drive Channel Fault Isolation Diagnostics

This command runs the drive channel fault isolation diagnostics and stores the results.
Syntax
start diskDriveChannel [(1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8)]
controller [(a | b)] faultDiagnostics
{testDevices=[all | controller=(a | b) |
esms=[enclosureID1 (left | right), ... enclosureIDn (left | right)] |
Drives=[enclosureID1, drawerID1, slotID1, ... , enclosureIDn, drawerIDn, slotIDn]] |
dataPattern=(fixed | pseudoRandom) |
patternNumber=[(0xhexadecimal | number)] |
maxErrorCount=integer |
testIterations=integer |
timeout=timeInterval}
Parameter
Parameter Description
The identifier letter of the controller that you want to test.
controller
Valid controller identifier values are a or b, where a is the
controller in slot A, and b is the controller in slot B.
The identifiers of the devices (controllers, ESMs, or drives) that
testDevices
you want to test. You can specify all or enter the specific
identifiers for the devices that you want to diagnose.
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Description
The file path and the file name to which you want to save
the DQ trace information. Refer to the Notes section for
information about naming the files.
Directory Comments
The DQ trace data
SAID/timestamp/
retrieved from controller
A.
The DQ trace data
SAID/timestamp/
retrieved fromcontroller
B.
The description file in
SAID/timestamp/
an xml format that
describes the DQ file
attributes for future data
mining.