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C H A P T E R 1

Introduction

This manual is a supplement to the SunVTS trademark 5.1 documentation and describes new features, tests, and test enhancements that are developed in the SunVTS 5.1 Patch Set releases. The new features, tests, and test enhancements included in this document are provided in the SunVTS 5.1 Patch Set 4 (PS4) software that is distributed on the Solaris Software Supplement CD.

For overall SunVTS features, test configuration modes, interfaces, and options refer to the SunVTS 5.1 User's Guide. Refer to the SunVTS 5.1 Test Reference Manual for detailed information on SunVTS test software and the full collection of tests released with SunVTS 5.1.

The new features of the SunVTS software introduced in SunVTS 5.1 Patch Set releases are described in Chapter 2.

The following tests are introduced in the SunVTS 5.1 PS4 release:

Sun Netra 240 Alarm Card Test (n240atest), described in Chapter 3.
RAM Test (ramtest), described in Chapter 4.

The following tests are enhanced in the SunVTS 5.1 PS4 release:

Disk and Floppy Drives Test (disktest), described in Chapter 5.
Sun Fire V880 FC-AL Disk Backplane Test (dpmtest), described Chapter 6.
Ethernet Loopback Test (netlbtest), described Chapter 7.
Multiprocessor Test (mptest), described in Chapter 8.

The following tests were introduced or enhanced in previous SunVTS 5.1 Patch Set releases:

Chip Multi-Threading Test (cmttest), described in Chapter 9.
Level 2 Cache Test (l2sramtest), described in Chapter 10.
Alarm Card 2 Test (alarm2test), described in Chapter 11.
Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator Test (pfbtest), described in Chapter 12.
Sun XVR-1200 Graphics Accelerator Test (jfbtest), described in Chapter 13.
Sun XVR-4000 Graphics Accelerator Test (zulutest), described in Chapter 14.
Blade Support Chip Test (bsctest), described in Chapter 15.
Environmental Test (env6test), described in Chapter 16.
I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit Test (i2c2test), described in Chapter 17.
Physical Memory Test (pmemtest), described in Chapter 18.
Virtual Memory Test (vmemtest), described in Chapter 19.
Floating Point Unit Test (fputest), described in Chapter 20.
System Test (systest), described in Chapter 21.
Integer Unit Test (iutest), described in Chapter 22.
System Service Processor Test (ssptest), described in Chapter 23.

Note - The System Service Processor test (ssptest) was previously titled the Remote System Control test (rsctest) in SunVTS 5.1. The reason for this change is that this test now supports Advanced Lights-Out Management hardware in addition to both Remote System Control 1.0 and 2.0 hardware.