Digital Equipment DECstation 5000/100 Series, Maintenance Manual

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How to Install a ThickWire Loopback Connector . . . . . . . 2–7
How to Remove a Communications Loopback
Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–8
How to Install a Communications Loopback
Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–8
How to Remove a SCSI Chain Terminator . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–9
How to Install a SCSI Chain Terminator . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2–9
How to Remove a Communications Line Adapter . . . . . . 2–11
How to Install a Communications Line Adapter . . . . . . . 2–11
How to Remove a SCSI Controller Terminator . . . . . . . . . 2–12
How to Install a SCSI Controller Terminator . . . . . . . . . . 2–12
Entering Console and Operating Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–13
How to Enter Console Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–14
How to Enter Operating Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–14
Using Console Command Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–15
To Set or Change a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–15
To Remove a Requirement for a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–15
To Erase a Password You Do Not Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–16
Inserting and removing a clear-NVR jumper . . . . 2–17
Booting the System Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–18
Setting System Boot ROM Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2–18
Shutting Down the System Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2–20
3 Troubleshooting Tools
Using Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–2
Using Slot Numbers in Test Commands and Error
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3–2
Running Power-Up Self-Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–4
Running Subtests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5
How to Run Individual Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5
How to Run Test Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–6
How to Display Lists of Available Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–6
Displaying a list of available test scripts . . . . . . . 3–7
Displaying the contents of a test script . . . . . . . . . 3–7
How to Create Test Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–8
Interpreting Test Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–9
Using ULTRIX Error Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–10
Examining Error Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–10
Error Log Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–10
Error log example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–11
Event Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–12
Using Memory Error Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3–13
Analyzing the Memory Error Example . . . . . . . . . 3–14
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