Scsi Raid Physical Disk Status And Vital Product Data; Scsd Tape Drive Service Aid - IBM pSeries 690 User Manual

When the adapter is selected, the SCSI Bus Address Selection menu displays. Use this menu to enter the
address to transmit the SCSI Inquiry Command.
After the address is selected, the SCSI Bus Test Run menu displays. Use this menu to transmit the SCSI
Inquiry Command by pressing Enter. The service aid then indicates the status of the transmission. When
the transmission is completed, the results of the transmission displays.
Notes:
1. A Check Condition can be returned when the bus or device is working correctly.
2. If the device is in use by another process, AIX does not send the command.

SCSI RAID Physical Disk Status and Vital Product Data

Note: This task was previously known as the PCI RAID Physical Disk Identify task.
Use this service aid when you want to look at the vital product data for a specific disk attached to a RAID
adapter.This service aid displays all disks that are recognized by the PCI RAID adapter, along with their
status, physical location, microde level, and other vital product data. The physical location of a disk
consists of the channel number of the RAID adapter and the SCSI ID number of the position in the
enclosure. The microde level is listed next to the physical location of the disk.
You can run this task directly from the command line with the following command syntax:
diag -c -d < device name > -T "identify"
Flags Description
-c Run the task without displaying menus. Only command line prompts are used.
-d RAID adapter device name (for example, scraid0).
-T Task to run.

SCSD Tape Drive Service Aid

This service aid allows you to obtain the status or maintenance information from a SCSD tape drive. Not
all models of SCSD tape drive are supported.
The service aid provides the following options:
v Display time since a tape drive was last cleaned. The time since the drive was last cleaned displays on
the screen, as well as a message regarding whether the drive is recommended to be cleaned.
v Copy a tape drive's trace table. The trace table of the tape drive is written to diskettes or a file. The
diskettes must be formatted for DOS. Writing the trace table may require several diskettes. The actual
number of diskettes is determined by the size of the trace table. Label the diskettes as follows:
TRACEx.DAT (where x is a sequential diskette number). The complete trace table consists of the
sequential concatenation of all the diskette data files.
When the trace table is written to a disk file, the service aid prompts for a file name. The default name
is: /tmp/TRACE.x, where x is the AIX name of the SCSD tape drive being tested.
v Display or copy a tape drive's log sense information. The service aid provides options to display the log
sense information to the screen, to copy it to a DOS formatted diskette, or to copy it to a file. The file
name LOGSENSE.DAT is used when the log sense data is written to the diskette. The service aid
prompts for a file name when you have selected that the log sense data is to be copied to a file.
This service aid can be run directly from the AIX command line. See the following command syntax (path
is /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/utape):
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