User`s guide

ADD PASSTHROUGH

Note

This command is valid for HSJ and HSD controllers only.

Creates a command disk (passthrough) container to allow direct access to a

device.

Format

ADD PASSTHROUGH

container-name device-name

Parameters

container-name

Speciﬁes the name that is used to refer to this passthrough container. The name

must start with a letter (A–Z) and can then consist of up to eight more characters

made up of letters A–Z, numbers 0–9, periods (.), dashes (-), or underscores (_),

for a total of nine characters.

device-name

The device that receives passthrough commands. Only one device may be

speciﬁed.

Description

Adds a passthrough container to the list of known passthrough containers

and names the container. This command must be used when you want to

communicate directly to a device using SCSI commands, such as a loader or a

disk that is about to have new microcode downline loaded.

Examples

CLI> ADD PASSTHROUGH PASS0 LDR421

Creates a passthrough container to loader LDR421 and names it PASS0.

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