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hardware:mark5.conditioning

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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:

  1. Without logging:
    SSErase -m0 -c1 
  2. With a log file:
    ./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”.

/home/www/auscope/opswiki/data/attic/hardware/mark5.conditioning.1344005003.txt.gz · Last modified: 2012/08/03 14:43 by Moblas people