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After disk modules arrive at the stations, they should be conditioned before use. Conditioning performs a read/write cycle over the set of disks and identifies and isolates bad sectors.
To Condition a module:
Place the module in Bank A leaving Bank B empty or unlocked.
On a terminal window on the ops1xx pc enter:
ssh oper@mk5xx
to log onto the Mark5B where xx = yg, ke or hb. Then ensure Dimino is not running by typing:
Enddim
Start the conditioning program with or without logging:
SSErase -m0 -c1
./condition "logfile"
where “logfile” is the output log file for SSErase - usually use the modules vsn for the logfile name. eg: ./condition HOB+0061. The logfile will be placed in ./scripts/.
The program will mention this is going to take a long time (see Conditioning times ) and ask you if you are sure you want to do this - answer “y”.
After many seconds, you should see the program output its first line of info.