Tony Newton <[log in to unmask]> 03/07/97 03:11am  wrote

>We have about 20 Coyotes that need to be tested.  I called HP and
>they gave me the password to sysdiag.  Now I need to find out how to
>use it to thoroughly test the drives.
>
>Could anybody give me any information on using sysdiag to test
>disc drives?  Or possibly some other route to take to test them?

What do you want to test?  The media surface, or do you just want to bang
them up a bit?  In either case you want to run section 17 of either CS80DIAG
(for HP-IB discs) or FLEXDIAG (for HP-FL discs), then clear the drive logs,
then run as many passes of the test of your choice as you like. Assuming
these are scratch disks I'd suggest the "WTR ERT" diagnostics -- maybe do a
the full surface, examine then clear the logs, then perform a few thousand
iterations of a random WTR ERT.

There is help: at the DUI prompt enter:
     HELP CS80DIAG SECTION 17
          -or-
     HELP FLEXDIAG SECTION 17

BTW, you can test all 20 drives at the same time -- SYSDIAG allows you to
start a diagnostic process then place it in the background so that
additional diagnostics can be run simultaneously.

Why you're finished with the tests you will, of course, want to review the
drive logs.

 -- Evan