NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/sgi/13271

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How do i use ide subcommands?
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Date: 4 Sep 92 04:05:36 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Aad v/d Klaauw) writes:

| In order to service and maintain our sgi machines (mostly indigo's) ourselves
| i would like to learn about all separate ide commands like 'inet2 -e',
| graphics tests etc., and in which order they are being executed during selftest
| and diagnostics. I played a while with a broken transceiver, unterminated
| network and inet2 but couldn't produce any diagnostics messages.
|
| Any help or pointers to documentation will be appreciated.

For the ESD machines (including indigo, we don't document the ide
commands (even to our FE's, for the most part)), and the commands,
their syntax, etc. change from release to release and system to
system.  You can get a list of the commands by typing 'help' at an
ide prompt, but that won't help you figure out what they do
for many of them (their names aren't always descriptive, and
are sometimes downright misleading).

The interactive mode is really intended pretty much for our
inhouse development and hardware bringup/debug.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   [e-mail]