UNIX PC 7300 diags questions

[John B. Milton]

In article <364 at umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> rhealey at ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey) writes:
>
>	Hi! I just bought one of those fire sale 7300's and I have a few
>	questions I hope someone can answer.
>
>	1) Does anyone have a list of all the commands available under the
>	   "expert" mode of the diagnostics? i.e. type s4test at the
>	   user menu prompt. I puttsed a little but since I didn't know
>	   what I was doing I thought it best to back off.

The command you're looking for is "?", the help command. As for the
interactive device test (31), It is documented in the $350 tech ref.
But it doesn't even match up with that anymore, as you can test the floppy
but not the hard disk.

>
>	2) Does anyone know how to create multiple partitions for a drive?
>	   The /dev directory seems to imply that one can have up to 16
>	   partitions, do you have to invoke some magic from the above stated
>	   expert mode of diags? My idea is this:

You may want partitions now, but you won't want them later!


>	   hold the time. Now, a week later, when my used 20M self
>	   destructed and I had to put the 10M back in, B^(, the
>	   battery held the time for 3 hours. ( Lunch time interfered

I had a similar thing happen when I pulled my Combo card to call in about
the serial chip problem.

John
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In article <364 at umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> rhealey at ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey) writes:
>
>	Hi! I just bought one of those fire sale 7300's and I have a few
>	questions I hope someone can answer.
>
>	1) Does anyone have a list of all the commands available under the
>	   "expert" mode of the diagnostics? i.e. type s4test at the
>	   user menu prompt. I puttsed a little but since I didn't know
>	   what I was doing I thought it best to back off.

The command you're looking for is "?", the help command. As for the
interactive device test (31), It is documented in the $350 tech ref.
But it doesn't even match up with that anymore, as you can test the floppy
but not the hard disk.

>
>	2) Does anyone know how to create multiple partitions for a drive?
>	   The /dev directory seems to imply that one can have up to 16
>	   partitions, do you have to invoke some magic from the above stated
>	   expert mode of diags? My idea is this:

You may want partitions now, but you won't want them later!


>	   hold the time. Now, a week later, when my used 20M self
>	   destructed and I had to put the 10M back in, B^(, the
>	   battery held the time for 3 hours. ( Lunch time interfered

I had a similar thing happen when I pulled my Combo card to call in about
the serial chip problem.

What is this mn.general group? Please list local groups last!

John
-- 
John Bly Milton IV, jbm at uncle.UUCP, n8emr!uncle!jbm at osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu
home: (614) 294-4823, work: (614) 459-7641; CP/M to MP/M, MS-DOS to OS/2