IBM R/S6000 7012 300 Series Operator's Manual page 91

SCSI Device Identification and Removal
This service aid allows the user to choose a SCSI device or location from a menu and to
identify a device, located in a 7027 system unit.
The service aid also does the following:
Generate a menu which displays all SCSI devices.
Lists the device and all of it's sibling devices.
List all SCSI adapters and their ports.
List all SCSI devices on a port.
SCSI Tape Drive Service Aid
This service aid provides a means to obtain the status or maintenance information from a
SCSI tape drive. Only some models of SCSI tape drive are supported.
The service aid provides the following options:
Display time since a tape drive was last cleaned.
The time since the drive was last cleaned will be displayed onto the screen. In addition, a
message indicating whether the drive is recommended to be cleaned will also be
displayed.
Copy a tape drive's trace table.
The trace table of the tape drive will be written to diskettes.
The required diskettes must be formatted for DOS. Writing the trace table may require
several diskettes. The actual number of required diskettes will be determined by the
service aid based on the size of the trace table. The names of the data files will be of the
following format:
'TRACE<X>.DAT' where 'X' will be the a sequential diskette number. The complete trace
table will consist of the sequential concatenation of all the diskette data files.
Display or copy a tape drive's log sense information.
The service aid will provides options to display the log sense information to 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 on the diskette. The
service aid will prompt for a file name when the log sense data is to be copied to a file.
This service aid may be run directly from the AIX command line. The following usage
statement describes the syntax of the command:
/usr/lpp/diagnostic/bin/utape [–h | –?][–c[–e] | –t | –l] –d <deviceName>
Flags
–c
–e
–t
–l
–h, –?
Display time since drive was last cleaned.
Turn off the interactive mode.
Copy trace table.
Display or copy log sense information.
Display help.
Introduction to Tasks and Service Aids
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