2. At the LOADER prompt, access the special drivers specifically designed for system-level diagnostics to
function properly:
boot_diags
During the boot process, you can safely respond y to the prompts until the Maintenance mode prompt (*>)
appears.
3.
Display and note the available devices on the controller module:
sldiag device show -dev mb
The controller module devices and ports displayed can be any one or more of the following:
◦
bootmedia is the system booting device..
◦ cna is a Converged Network Adapter or interface not connected to a network or storage device.
◦ fcal is a Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop device not connected to a Fibre Channel network.
◦
env is motherboard environmentals.
◦ mem is system memory.
◦ nic is a network interface card.
◦
nvram is nonvolatile RAM.
◦
nvmem is a hybrid of NVRAM and system memory.
◦
sas is a Serial Attached SCSI device not connected to a disk shelf.
4. Run diagnostics as desired.
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