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Troubleshooting

168 Avaya CMS Sun Fire V880 Computer Hardware Installation, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting

Test descriptions

The following table lists some of the OpenBoot PROM On-Board firmware test commands.
Note that for some commands, test results are displayed. For other commands, the ok
prompt is displayed when the test is finished.

Additional references - See Sun OpenBoot 4.x Command Reference Manual at the
following Sun documentation Web site for more information:

http://docs.sun.com

Command

Description

probe-scsi

Displays the recognized disk drives and backplanes.

probe-scsi-all

Displays the recognized disk drives, backplanes, tape drives,

and DVD-ROM drives.

show-devs

Displays all the devices known to the system directly beneath a

given device in the device hierarchy. When using show-devs

by itself, the command shows the entire device tree.

show-disks

Displays all disk devices.

test-all

Runs a series of tests on the network and on hardware

components. The test may take several minutes to complete.

You can use Stop+A to stop the tests.

test devalias

Runs the self-test method of the specified device. Use the
devalias

command to display a list of device aliases that can

be tested. You must enter the full path name of the device alias

to run the test. For example, to test the DVD-ROM drive, enter:

test /pci@8,700000/scsi@1/disk@6,0:f

watch-clock

Tests the clock function.

watch-net
watch-net-all

Runs a loopback test, a transceiver test, and a packet

transmission test.

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