Start Drive Channel Locate; Start Disk Drive Initialize - IBM System Storage DS3000 Programming Manual

Parameter Description
Drives EnclosureID1,drawerID1, slotID1 ...
enclosureIDn,drawerIDn,slotIDn is for enclosures with
multiple disk drive drawers. For enclosures without disk drive
drawers, use enclosureID1,slotID1 ... enclosureIDn,slotIDn
instead. Enclosure ID values are 0 to 99. Drawer ID values are
1 to 5. Slot ID values are 1 to 32. Enclose the values in square
brackets ([ ]).
The method of repeatability that you want to test.
dataPattern
The hexadecimal data pattern you want to use to run the test.
patternNumber
This number can be any hexadecimal number between 0000 to
FFFF.
maxErrorCount The number of errors that you want to accept before
terminating the test.
The number of times that you want to repeat the test.
testIterations
timeout The length of time in minutes that you want to run the test.
Notes
Use the save driveChannel faultDiagnostics command and the stop driveChannel faultDiagnostics
command in association with the start driveChannel faultDiagnostics command. These commands are
needed to save the diagnostic test results to a file and to stop the diagnostic test.
You can also stop this command at any time by pressing Ctrl+C

Start Drive Channel Locate

This command identifies the expansion drawers that are connected to a specific disk drive channel by
turning on the indicator lights for the expansion drawer that is connected to the disk drive channel. (Use
the stop driveChannel locate command to turn off the indicator lights on the expansion drawer.)
Syntax
start driveChannel [(1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |7 | 8)] locate
Parameter
Parameter Description
The identifier number of the disk drive channel that you
driveChannel
want to locate. Valid values for the identifier number for
the disk drive channel are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8. Enclose the
disk drive channel identifier number in square brackets
([ ]).

Start Disk Drive Initialize

This command starts disk drive initialization.
Attention: Possible damage to the storage subsystem configuration – As soon as you enter this
command, all user data is destroyed.
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