rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey) (06/27/88)
Hi! I just bought one of those fire sale 7300's and I have a few questions I hope someone can answer. 1) Does anyone have a list of all the commands available under the "expert" mode of the diagnostics? i.e. type s4test at the user menu prompt. I puttsed a little but since I didn't know what I was doing I thought it best to back off. 2) Does anyone know how to create multiple partitions for a drive? The /dev directory seems to imply that one can have up to 16 partitions, do you have to invoke some magic from the above stated expert mode of diags? My idea is this: 6 partitions: 0: 32 blocks for boot/loader 1: 5000 blocks for swap/paging 2: 3200 blocks for /tmp 3: 13000 blocks for / 4: 13000 blocks for /u 5: 4984 blocks for /usr/spool ----- for a total of 39216 aka a 40M drive The main reason I want to break things up is to reduce the time to do backups. / and /u are the only ones that need backing up and / is basically a read only partition so it only has to be backed up once. 3) For you fire sale "My battery is DEAD" people. When I first powered up the 7300 my battery was dead too, it wouldn't hold the time. Now, a week later, when my used 20M self destructed and I had to put the 10M back in, B^(, the battery held the time for 3 hours. ( Lunch time interfered there, it only took 45 minutes to rip out the 20M) Maybe the battery can partially recharge when the machine is turned back on. Any info would be greatly appreciated, -Rob Healey rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu
jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) (06/28/88)
In article <364@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey) writes: > > Hi! I just bought one of those fire sale 7300's and I have a few > questions I hope someone can answer. > > 1) Does anyone have a list of all the commands available under the > "expert" mode of the diagnostics? i.e. type s4test at the > user menu prompt. I puttsed a little but since I didn't know > what I was doing I thought it best to back off. The command you're looking for is "?", the help command. As for the interactive device test (31), It is documented in the $350 tech ref. But it doesn't even match up with that anymore, as you can test the floppy but not the hard disk. > > 2) Does anyone know how to create multiple partitions for a drive? > The /dev directory seems to imply that one can have up to 16 > partitions, do you have to invoke some magic from the above stated > expert mode of diags? My idea is this: You may want partitions now, but you won't want them later! > hold the time. Now, a week later, when my used 20M self > destructed and I had to put the 10M back in, B^(, the > battery held the time for 3 hours. ( Lunch time interfered I had a similar thing happen when I pulled my Combo card to call in about the serial chip problem. John -- John Bly Milton IV, jbm@uncle.UUCP, n8emr!uncle!jbm@osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu home: (614) 294-4823, work: (614) 459-7641; CP/M to MP/M, MS-DOS to OS/2 Newsgroups: mn.general,comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general Subject: Re: UNIX PC 7300 diags questions Summary: Expires: References: <364@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> Sender: Reply-To: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) Followup-To: Distribution: na Organization: Just me and my computer, Columbus Ohio Keywords: UNIX PC In article <364@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey) writes: > > Hi! I just bought one of those fire sale 7300's and I have a few > questions I hope someone can answer. > > 1) Does anyone have a list of all the commands available under the > "expert" mode of the diagnostics? i.e. type s4test at the > user menu prompt. I puttsed a little but since I didn't know > what I was doing I thought it best to back off. The command you're looking for is "?", the help command. As for the interactive device test (31), It is documented in the $350 tech ref. But it doesn't even match up with that anymore, as you can test the floppy but not the hard disk. > > 2) Does anyone know how to create multiple partitions for a drive? > The /dev directory seems to imply that one can have up to 16 > partitions, do you have to invoke some magic from the above stated > expert mode of diags? My idea is this: You may want partitions now, but you won't want them later! > hold the time. Now, a week later, when my used 20M self > destructed and I had to put the 10M back in, B^(, the > battery held the time for 3 hours. ( Lunch time interfered I had a similar thing happen when I pulled my Combo card to call in about the serial chip problem. What is this mn.general group? Please list local groups last! John -- John Bly Milton IV, jbm@uncle.UUCP, n8emr!uncle!jbm@osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu home: (614) 294-4823, work: (614) 459-7641; CP/M to MP/M, MS-DOS to OS/2
cals@cals01.zone1.com (Charles A. Sefranek) (06/28/88)
In article <364@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey) writes: > > 1) Does anyone have a list of all the commands available under the > "expert" mode of the diagnostics? i.e. type s4test at the > user menu prompt. I puttsed a little but since I didn't know > what I was doing I thought it best to back off. I determined these by trial and error, I DON'T have the hardware manual (wish I could afford it !!). No garantees, but here goes: s4test Expert Commands (Enter ? for usage) 0,0 Memory Tests 1,2,3 0,1 Memory Test 1 - Address Connection Test 0,2 Memory Test 2 - Data Bus Test 0,3 Memory Test 3 - Random Pattern Test 0,4 Memory Test ?? 0,5 -> 0,26 <No response> 1,0 MAP Translation Test, Subtests 1,2 1,1 MAP Translation Test, Subtest 1 1,2 MAP Translation Test, Subtest 2 1,3 MAP Translation Test, Subtest 3 3,0 Parity Test 3,1 Parity Test 4,0 60 Hz Clock Test 5,0 User I/O Interrupt Test 5,1 User I/O Interrupt Test - Subtest 1 5,2 User I/O Interrupt Test - Subtest 2 6,0 ? <6 is the Hard Disk Test series> 6,1 Recal disk 6,2 Format Disk 6,3 ? 6,4 Disk Read 6,5 Random seek test 6,6 Non-destructive surface test 6,7 ? 6,8 Modify Bad Blocks table 6,9 ? 6,10 ? 6,11 ? 6,12 Disk Information 6,13 ? 6,14 ? 6,15 ? 6,16 Interactive test (Prompts >i ??) 6,17 ? 6,18 ? 6,19 ? 6,20 ? 6,21 ? 6,22 ? 6,23 DESTRUCTIVE surface test 6,24 Park disk heads 6,25 ? 7,0 Diagnostics, Main Board, Revision & Build info 8,0 Floppy Disk Test 8,1 Recal floppy disk 8,2 Format floppy disk 8,3 ? 8,4 Floppy read test 8,5 Random floppy seek test 8,6 Floppy nondestructive surface test 8,7 ? 8,8 Modify floppy bad blocks (won't actually !) 8,9 ? 8,10 ? 8,11 ? 8,12 Floppy information 8,13 ? 8,14 ? 8,15 ? 8,16 Floppy Interactive test 8,17 -> 8,22 ? 8,23 Floppy DESTRUCTIVE surface test 9,0 Reboot system 10,0 MAP RAM Test - Subtests 1,2, and 3 10,1 MAP RAM Subtest 1 - Address Connection Test 10,2 MAP RAM Subtest 2 - Data Bus Test 10,3 MAP RAM Subtest 3 - Random Pattern Test 12,0 Page Protection Test - Subtests 1,2,3, and 4 12,1 Page Protection Subtest 1 - CPU accessing invalid test 12,2 Page Protection Subtest 2 - User's accessing below 512K 12,3 Page Protection Subtest 3 - User's writing to disabled page 12,4 Page Protection Subtest 4 - DMA to invalid page 13,0 Printer Tests 13,1 Printer Status Test 13,2 Printer Transfer Test 14,0 Memory Test 14,1 --\ 14,2 >- Seems to be repeat of 0,0 -> 0,3 14,3 --/ 15,0 Video Test 15,1 -> 15,9 More video tests !!! 16,1 Interactive Dialer DTMF Test 16,2 Interactive Dialer Pulse Test 16,3 Dialer/Telephony Test 16,4 Pulse/Telephony Test 16,5 ? 16,6 Auto Answer Test 17,1 Modem Test - Self test @ 300/1200 baud 17,2 Modem Test - Data xfer @ 300/1200 baud 18,0 Keyboard and Mouse Test 18,1 Keyboard Test 18,2 Keyboard with Mouse test 18,3 Mouse Test 18,4 Real Time Clock Test 18,5 Read/Write Test 18,6 Operation Test 18,7 Interactive Test (I was getting pretty tired by this time) If anyone can correct or add to this list please post or let me know. Also if anyone has the hardware manual, could you shed some light on the questionable areas?? Just how many valid commands ARE there anyway ?? -- Charlie Sefranek c4s@rayssdb.ray.com (Work) cals@cals01.zone1.com (Home) {sun,decuac,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!rayssdb!c4s (Work) {sun,decuac,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!galaxia!cals01!cals (Home) -- -- Charlie Sefranek c4s@rayssdb.ray.com (Work) cals@cals01.zone1.com (Home) {sun,cb-att,decuac,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!rayssdb!c4s (Work) {sun,cb-att,decuac,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!galaxia!cals01!cals (Home)
donp@cup.portal.com (06/29/88)
Rob Healey recently wrote: > 3) For you fire sale "My battery is DEAD" people. When I first > powered up the 7300 my battery was dead too, it wouldn't > hold the time. Now, a week later, when my used 20M self > destructed and I had to put the 10M back in, the > battery held the time for 3 hours. ( Lunch time interfered > there, it only took 45 minutes to rip out the 20M) > Maybe the battery can partially recharge when the machine is > turned back on. Yes, that is what happens. Observing the same phenomena, I put a current meter in series with the battery. When the machine is turned on, the battery does indeed "charge" with a small current. I seem to recall that technically the lithium batteries used are not rechargable-- however, they do seem to tolerate a small amount of reverse current. Don Parmentier donp@cup.portal.com