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The Diagnostics Utility, Running the Diagnostics, From the Hard Disk Drive

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D The Diagnostics Utility Your Adaptec DuraLAN NIC is supplied with a DOS Diagnostics utility that is found on the LAN and Duralink64 Failover Drivers NetWare CD. Use the Diagnostics utility to check the functionality of your DuraLAN NICs. Running the Diagnostics From the Hard Disk Drive To run the Diagnostics utility from your hard disk drive, follow these steps: 1 Make sure himem.sys and emm386.exe are currently in config.sys and that files=30 is present. If they are not, add these lines to the top of the config.sys file: device=c:\dos\himem.sys device=c:\dos\emm386.exe /noems files=30 Type the path to the DOS programs if it is not found in c:\dos. 2 Create a directory for the diagnostics on your hard disk drive. 3 Copy all files in this directory to the new diagnostics directory of the hard disk drive. 4 At the DOS prompt, type go_diags, and press Enter. Note: The easiest way of testing a DuraLAN NIC is running the Selftest. D-1

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D
The Diagnostics Utility
Your Adaptec DuraLAN NIC is supplied with a DOS Diagnostics
utility that is found on the LAN and Duralink64 Failover Drivers
NetWare CD. Use the Diagnostics utility to check the functionality
of your DuraLAN NICs.
Running the Diagnostics
From the Hard Disk Drive
To run the Diagnostics utility from your hard disk drive, follow
these steps:
1
Make sure
himem.sys
and
emm386.exe
are currently in
config.sys
and that
files=30
is present.
If they are not, add these lines to the top of the
config.sys
file:
device=c:\dos\himem.sys
device=c:\dos\emm386.exe /noems
files=30
Type the path to the DOS programs if it is not found in
c:\dos
.
2
Create a directory for the diagnostics on your hard disk drive.
3
Copy all files in this directory to the new diagnostics directory of
the hard disk drive.
4
At the DOS prompt, type
go_diags
, and press
Enter
.
Note:
The easiest way of testing a DuraLAN NIC is running
the Selftest.