HP Surestore Disk Array 12h System Administrator's Guide for HP-UX, MPE, and W - Page 195

MPE Using the ARDIAG Offline Diagnostic on MPE Operational Command Descriptions WRTMT The WRTMT command allows the user to perform a destructive write/read and verify test on the specified target. Synopsis WRTMT Output ARDIAG> wrtmt You must set the range variable before performing this task! SOFTWARE ERROR(S) DETECTED BY ARDIAG ARDIAG> range 0,1000/1200,45000 The selected disk has blocks from 0 to 4165271 RANGE: 0,1000/1200,45000 ARDIAG> wrtmt * W A R N I N G ! * * This test cannot continue without a loss of redundancy on the AutoRAID * Array being tested! Failure of a disk before redundancy is restored * will result in DATA LOSS. Although continuation of this test will NOT * result in direct data loss, it may take several hours before redundancy * is restored and a disk failure can be tolerated without data loss. Do you want to continue (y/[n])? y The following data pattern options are available: 1 - Random pattern (0x00 to 0xFF) 2 - User defined 3 - Abort the test Choose [1]: 2 Enter the pattern in hex format (0 to FF) [A5]: dd The write data pattern will be 0xDD Testing block 0. percent complete 100% Test complete. 195