Northern Telecom DMS-100 Series Maintenance Manual page 88

4-54 Disk drive procedures
Procedure 4-24
Disk condition and disk file error messages - procedures
4 Other Alarm Indications
5 System Recovery Action
6 Craftsperson Activity
297-1001-537 Standard 01.02 December 1993
Default:
Status Panel:
Customer-Selected
Status Panel:
Termination of disk job.
If disk is in PRIME mode, do not continue. Otherwise,
perform the following steps:
a.User is trying to format an active disk; format the
CAUTION
Do not format 70, 140, or 380Mbyte w/o 56K polling unless under
instruction from NT TAS.
These disk commands may cause data loss. Perform the DISK
FORMAT procedure during a period of low traffic to avoid data
loss.
Enter:
b.Initialize the disk.
(continued)
(continued)
2
other disk.
(at the terminal)
>DISK FORMAT x (cr)
where: x = drive
Proper response =
FORMAT DONE
DISK FORMAT STARTED
← BCS29 w/56K polling After
success completion of the FORMAT
operation, the FORMAT DONE
message is output.
i. For any other response, see the procedure for that
message and perform the activities listed.
ii. If successful, go to step b.
Audible:
Audible:
= A = disk drive A
= B = disk drive B