- HELP
EVRAD IS A LEVEL 2 DISK FUNCTIONAL DIAGNOSTIC WITH A TESTING CAPABILITY
OF UP TO EIGHT DEVICES. THESE DEVICES MAY BE CURRENTLY UNUSED DISKS
OR DEVICES WHICH ARE MOUNTED PUBLIC SUCH AS THE SYSTEM DISK. SCRATCH
MEDIA IS NOT A REQUIRMENT FOR THIS DIAGNOSTIC SINCE TESTING IN NON -
DESTRUCTIVE IN NATURE. EVRAD REQUIRES DIAGNOSTIC SUPERVISOR VERSION
OF 6.7 OR ABOVE DUE TO THE ADDITION OF PREPERATION ERROR MESSAGES.
EVRAD CURRENTLY SUPPORTS THE FOLLOWING DEVICES:
RK06,RK07
RM03,RM05,RM80
RP04,RP05,RP06,RP07
RL02
IDC RL02,IDC R80
- PROTECTION
EVRAD WILL NOT DESTROY CUSTOMER DATA ON THE MEDIA. THERE ARE NO OPERATOR
ERRORS THAT WILL CAUSE DATA TO BE CORRUPTED. THIS PROGRAM USES THE
DEVICE FE CYLINDERS FOR WRITE FUNCTIONS IF THE DEVICE IS SO EQUIPPED OR
A REPLICATED COPY OF THE 18 BIT MODE BAD SECTOR FILE WHICH IS NOT REFER-
ENCED BY VAX/VMS. IF AT THE WISH OF THE SITE MANAGER WRITES ARE TO BE
DISCOURAGED THE DISK MAY BE WRITE LOCKED. THE PROGRAM WILL SENSE THIS
AND RUN NORMALLY. IF THE DEVICE IS A PUBLIC DISK AND WRITE PROTECTION
CANNOT BE INSTITUTED THE PROGRAM MAY BE STARTED IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER:
START/SECTION:NOWRITE
******* DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM ON NON DIGITAL STRUCTURED MEDIA *******
- SECURITY
EVRAD DOES NOT STORE DATA FOR LATER REFERENCE NOR DOES IT EVER PRINT
CUSTOMER DATA IN ERROR REPORTS OR IN ASCII FORMAT.
- SECTIONS
EVRAD CONTAINS ONE NON - DEFAULT TEST SECTION, NOWRITE.
THIS SECTION WILL BYPASS ALL TESTS WHICH CONTAIN WRITE DATA COMMANDS.
- PUBLIC_DISKS
EVRAD HAS THE ABILITY TO TEST PUBLIC DISKS WHILE OPERATING IN THE VMS
ENVIRONMENT. A PUBLIC DISK IS DEFINED AS NOT ALLOCATED BY A ANOTHER
PROCESS, NOT SPECIFICALLY OWNED BY THIS PROCESS, AND A DATA CHANNEL
CAN BE OPENED BY THIS PROCESS. THEREFORE THE SYSTEM DISK IS DEFINED
AS A PUBLIC DISK. TO ATTACH A PUBLIC DISK THE PROGRAM EVRAD MUST BE
LOADED FIRST AND THEN THE FOLLOWNG ATTACH COMMAND IS REQUIRED.
DS> ATTACH RH780 HUB RH0 8 5
DS> ATTACH PUBDISK RH0 DRA0 ! SAMPLE RM80
OR
DS> ATTACH DW780 HUB DW0 3 4
DS> ATTACH RK611 DW0 DMA 777440 210 5
DS> ATTACH PUBDISK DW0 DMA0 ! SAMPLE RK07
OR
DS> ATTACH DW730 HUB DW0
DS> ATTACH RB730 DW0 DQA
DS> ATTACH R80 DQA DQA0 ! SAMPLE IDC R80
- SUMMARY
SUMMARY MESSAGES ARE PRINTED AT THE END OF EACH PASS FOR ALL SELECTED
DEVICES. ERROR TOTALS ARE CUMULATIVE.
A PREPERATION ERROR WILL BE PRINTED FROM THE SUMMARY SECTION IF
THE DRIVE IS WRITE PROTECTED. THIS IS TO REMIND USERS THAT SINCE
THE DRIVE IS PROTECTED THAT TESTING WAS INCOMPLETE. THIS PRINT
OUT DOES NOT INDICATE ANY TYPE OF HARDWARE MALFUNCTION.
- RUN_TIMES
RUN TIMES ARE APPROXIMATELY 5 TO 9 MINUTES PER DEVICE DEPENDING ON THE
DEVICE TYPES SELECTED
- EVENT_FLAGS
EVENT FLAG 1
WHEN SET THIS FLAG ALLOWS QIO RETRIES - DEFAULT = RESET
EVENT FLAG 2
WHEN SET THIS FLAG ALLOW SYSTEM ERROR LOGGING - DEFAULT = RESET
ALL TESTS WHICH FORCE DEVICE ERRORS WILL BE BYPASSED IF THIS
FLAG IS SET.
EVENT FLAG 21
WHEN SET ENABLE BRIEF ERROR REPORTS - DEFAULT = RESET
- NOTES
THIS HELP SECTION CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING OPERATION
OF THIS PROGRAM
- BAD_SECTORS
BOTH THE MANUFACTURING AND USER BAD SECTOR FILES ARE LOOGED IN
MEMORY WHEN THE PROGRAM IS STARTED. THE PROGRAM WILL NOT REFER-
ENCE ANY SECTORS CONTAINED IN THESE FILES. IF THE FILES ARE
UNREADABLE OR CORRUPTED AN INFO MESSAGE WILL BE PRINTED AND
AT SUCH TIME ERRORS DUE TO BAD SECTORS MAY OCCUR.
- TRACING
SINCE THE PROGRAM SUPPORTS MANY TYPES OF DISKS (DS> SHOW SUPPORT)
NOT ALL TESTS ARE RUN ON ALL TYPES. THEREFORE IF THE TRACE
FLAG IS SET UNDER THE DIAGNOSTIC SUPERVISOR UNSUPPORTED
DEVICES WILL BE PRINTED NEXT TO THE TEST HEADER MESSAGE.
- PROBLEMS
NONE KNOWN AT THIS TIME