millercb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Clifford B Miller) (11/01/90)
Hi... I want to be able to load the standalone diagnostic program (normally stand/ide) from disk instead of from tape. Is this possible? Can I load it onto a disk and then execute it from there? Send e-mail to cliff@research.nec.com if you've got any hints. Thanks. Clifford B. Miller, Research Associate / Systems Administrator NEC Research Institute, 4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540 Internet: cliff@research.nec.com phone: (609) 951-2688 UUCP: ...princeton!necserve!cliff
olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (11/03/90)
In <3737@idunno.Princeton.EDU> millercb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Clifford B Miller) writes: | Hi... | I want to be able to load the standalone diagnostic program | (normally stand/ide) from disk instead of from tape. Is this possible? | Can I load it onto a disk and then execute it from there? | Send e-mail to cliff@research.nec.com if you've got any hints. Thanks. You don't say which machine you have, but if it is a PI of some flavor, you will find ide in the volume header of the root drive, so you can either choose 2 from the PROM menu, or simply say 'ide' or 'ide fe' (for more verbosity and slightly different tests (fe for field engineer)) at the PROM prompt. Note that some of the tests fail if you don't have loopback connectors on the duarts, etc., so don't get real upset if you are running 'fe' or manually, and some tests report failure. Finally, if you interrupt ide, you can increase the verbosity of the status/failure reports by saying 'report=#', where 0 is silent except for final reports, up through 4, which is very verbose. -- Dave Olson Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.