Troubleshooting Your System
8-6 AlphaServer 1000A Rackmount Owner’s Guide
Example 8–1: The test Command
>>> test
Requires diskette and loopback connectors on COM2 and
parallel port
type kill_diags to halt testing
type show_status to display testing progress
type cat el to redisplay recent errors
Testing COM2 port
Setting up network test, this will take about 20 seconds
Testing the network
80 Meg of System Memory
Bank 0 = 32 Mbytes(8 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x00000000
Bank 1 = 32 Mbytes(8 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x02000000
Bank 2 = 16 Mbytes(4 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x04000000
Bank 3 = No Memory Detected
Testing the memory
Testing parallel port
Testing the SCSI Disks
Non-destructive Test of the Floppy started
serial port not used as main console - VGA test bypassed
Printer offline
file open failed for para
The kill and kill_diags Commands
The
kill
and
kill_diags
commands terminate diagnostics that are currently
executing.
The
kill
command terminates a specified process.
The
kill_diags
command terminates all diagnostics.
