STM: Tutorial

Running a Tool
With a device selected, the next step is to select a tool (test) to run on it.
To see a list of commands, including the commands to run tools, enter
help. For a description of the commands, enter:
cstm>help more
As you can see, STM offers several tool types. (Not all tool types are supported on all devices on all operating systems.)
In this case, we choose "verify" to make sure that the new disk has been properly installed and is functional. To start the
verify test on the selected device, we enter:
cstm>verify
Protecting Against Harmful Operations
Before the verify test begins on some devices, STM prompts you whether to run a Read-Only Test, or a Read/Write
Test.
Whenever possible, STM protects you from inadvertently performing potentially harmful operations, such as destroying
data.
In this case we press Enter to start the default Read-Only test.
Monitoring Test Progress