Reformatting the data recovery storage option in JACE

NOTE: This procedure is written for those controller models that have an SRAM option card installed. The alternate boot menu options may differ slightly for controller models that have onboard SRAM (or other data recovery storage option).

Perform the following steps:

If needed beforehand, backup the controller to your PC using normal platform tools.
Power the controller off, and install the serial shell jumper (if not already installed).

Connect the necessary serial cable between the controller and your PC’s COM port.
On your PC, start a terminal emulation program, for example HyperTerminal, and open a previously saved setup for JACE-2,-6,-7 communications, using that COM port. Settings are listed below.
- Bits per second: 115200
- Data bits: 8
- Parity: None
- Stop bits: 1
- Flow control: Hardware

With your HyperTerminal session active, apply power to the controller.

After a short delay, text should appear in the HyperTerminal window similar to below:

NOTE: Wait for the prompt:

Press ESC to choose alternate boot options...

and then press ESC.

IPL for NPM 2 (PPC405EP) v3.03 ECC 
Press <ctrl-c> to stop autoboot... 
Autobooting... 
Loading image from on-board and flash 
npm2xx startup version 6.41 
launching devc waiting for /dev/ser1 
creating symlink for /dev/serconsole 
Welcome to QNX Neutrino 6.4 on the NPM 2xx (ppc405) 
starting /ffs0 filesystem ETFS_FS_512
Press ESC to choose alternate boot options...

Press ESC to go to the alternate boot menu, a portion of which is shown below.
NOTE: Also, as explained in the alternate boot menu, be careful about which options you skip!
```
9. Skip starting niagara daemon 
10. Skip SRAM option card mount 
11. Format SRAM option card before mount  
c. continue with boot  Enter choice:
```
At the “Enter choice” prompt, type 11 and press ENTER.

The alternate boot menu repeats, only missing the selected item 11 (“Format SRAM option card before mount”).

Type c (to continue with boot) and press ENTER

You see “continuing boot...” along with other normal boot messages for TCP/IP initialization.

When the boot completes (at the login prompt), there should be entries indicating that a format operation occurred, as shown in the following:

SRAM option card detected in slot 1 
Formating SRAM option card before mount 
SRAM option card mounted successfully at /sramopt 
starting ntpd...
MESSAGE [15:36:48 29-Jun-2010] [tid=1] niagarad: starting, baja_home=/niagara 
MESSAGE [15:36:48 29-Jun-2010] [tid=1] webserver: web server started [tid = 4] 
MESSAGE [15:36:48 29-Jun-2010] [tid=1] app registry: station registry starting 
MESSAGE [15:36:48 29-Jun-2010] [tid=7] engine watchdog: app J202_TestW watchdog thread started [tid = 8] 
MESSAGE [15:36:48 29-Jun-2010] [tid=7] station: station J202_TestW starting login:

When the “login” prompt appears, power off the controller.

If needed (and applicable), you can now remove the SRAM option card to use in another controller.

NOTE: If removing an SRAM option card from a JACE-6,-7 controller and not reinstalling, be sure to uninstall the platDataRecovery module from the controller, using the platform Software Manager.
Exit from the HyperTerminal application, selecting to Save if you wish to reuse this setup again.

Reformatting the data recovery storage option in JACE

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