Northern Telecom DMS-100 Series Maintenance Manual page 165

Procedure 4-61
Polling disks from a nonredundant mode
Step Description
3 Enter: (at the terminal)
>IDXMAINT CREATE FILE AMA (cr)
4 Enter: (at the terminal)
>LSTACT (cr)
System response =
FILE OPEN:
5 Enter: (at the terminal)
>CLSACT ii (cr)
where:
ii = ID of file to close
6 Enter: (at the terminal)
>LSTACT (cr)
7 Enter: (at the terminal)
>DISK MODE AO (cr)
or
>DISK MODE BO (cr)
(continued)
ii ss tt bbbb
.
.
.
(continued)
DPP Recovery and Routine Maintenance Guide BCS35 and up
Disk drive procedures 4-131
Notes
Write any remaining call records to the AMA
data file.
Display the currently active files. The active
files on the current disk must be closed
before switching disk modes.
where:
ii = ID of open file
ss = status of open file
tt = file type
bbbb = file block size
The files identified (ii) by the output of step
4 must be closed. Continue entering this
command for each of the files in the
response.
Note: When executing the CLSACT
command, it is possible that a disk file error
may occur. For example, FILE CLOSE
ERROR: 18, which is received for closing
an empty file, has no impact and should be
ignored. For any other error messages, see
the procedure for that message and perform
the Craftperson activities listed.
Alternate between steps 5 and 6 until the
response to the LSTACT command is:
0 FILES LISTED
Note: If a block header is received at any
time before moving on to step 7, repeat
steps 3, 4, 5, and 6 until all active files are
closed
Change the disk mode to ONLY .
If the current mode is B ONLY
If the current mode is A ONLY