Dell PowerVault MD3260i - Manual (Page 353)

Start Physical Disk Channel Fault Isolation Diagnostics
Description
This command runs the physical disk channel fault isolation diagnostics and stores the results.
Syntax
start physicalDiskChannel [(1 | 2)]
controller [(0 | 1)] faultDiagnostics
testDevices=[(all | controller=(0 | 1) |
emms=[enclosureID1 slotID1, enclosureID2 slotID2... enclosureIDn slotIDn]
|
physicalDisks= (enclosureID1,slotID1... enclosureIDn,slotIDn)]
| (dataPattern=(fixed | pseudoRandom) |
patternNumber=[(0xhexadecimal | number)] |
maxErrorCount=integer | testIterations=integer |
timeout=timeInterval)
Parameters
Parameter Description
physicalDiskChannel The identifier number of the physical disk channel that you
want to locate. Valid values for the identifier number are 1
or 2. Enclose the identifier number in square brackets ([ ]).
controller The identifier letter of the RAID controller module that you
want to test. Valid RAID controller module identifier values
are 0 and 1. The identifier value is 0 for the RAID
controller module on the top and 1 for the RAID controller
module on the bottom when viewed from the rear of the
enclosure.
testDevices The identifiers of the devices (RAID controller modules,
EMMs, or physical disks) that you want to test. You can
specify all or enter the specific identifiers for the devices
that you want to diagnose.
dataPattern The method of repeatability that you want to test.
patternNumber The hexadecimal data pattern you want to use to run the
test.
This number can be any hexadecimal number between
0000 to FFFF.
maxErrorCount The number of errors that you want to accept before
terminating the test.
testIterations The number of times that you want to repeat the test.
timeout The length of time in minutes that you want to run the test.
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