Sun Ultra 27 Workstation Service Manual

ProcedureTo Access the Diagnostic Partition on a Windows System

If you are running Windows XP on the Sun Ultra 27 workstation, you cannot access the diagnostic partition using Windows XP.

The only way to retrieve the contents (log files) on the diagnostic partition is to attach a USB diskette drive to the Sun Ultra 27 workstation and complete the following procedure.

  1. Connect the USB diskette drive to any USB port on the Sun Ultra 27 workstation.

  2. Insert the Tools and Drivers DVD into the DVD drive.

  3. Reboot the workstation.

  4. At the Tools and Drivers DVD main menu, type 4 to exit to DOS.

  5. To change to the d: drive, enter the following at the DOS command prompt.

    C:> d:

  6. Copy the log file to the diskette.

    For example, to copy a file named noinput.jrl to the diskette, enter:

    D:> copy d:\noinput.jrl a:\

    The journal file is now saved to the diskette in the USB diskette drive.