From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 13:23:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4D9106568C for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:23:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02388FC12 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:23:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.35]) by QMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ed1r1a0020ldTLk58dNvXw; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:22:55 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id edPV1a00C2P6wsM3QdPVgQ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:23:30 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=RNpAhh0qwRMA:10 a=Bzmr-YL0yvUA:10 a=h_QOzLBgAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=whNpvPDw1BKhEwCj3YwA:9 a=yJZpXigjGLJtDtCAHrQA:7 a=yqDseWQ5RTkrp1m3BrSpVRS4RIoA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D07E45C19; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:23:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:23:28 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: VeeJay Message-ID: <20081113132328.GA22474@icarus.home.lan> References: <2cd0a0da0811120701r7c57bd6btf7640440dbb11035@mail.gmail.com> <1226503559.27892.177.camel@soundwave.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com> <2cd0a0da0811121039m1f05643eh939ed4fd8f6f076d@mail.gmail.com> <1226519743.27892.193.camel@soundwave.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com> <2cd0a0da0811130049q2debb60esb12f47b2aa514409@mail.gmail.com> <2cd0a0da0811130429s2dff46cam5b2bd0c214eed56a@mail.gmail.com> <20081113124104.GA21617@icarus.home.lan> <2cd0a0da0811130516j57ed688ar2e549a7b00d1d217@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2cd0a0da0811130516j57ed688ar2e549a7b00d1d217@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Scott Long , bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com, FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:23:32 -0000 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:16:58PM +0100, VeeJay wrote: > I have asked the system manufacturers (Dell) but they don't provide support > for FreeBSD based systems [?] > Thats why I have only hope here with FreeBSD List... I've CC'd Scott Long, who is the author of the mfi(4) driver. He should be able to explain what the error messages mean. Scott, check out the URL below. > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:29:11PM +0100, VeeJay wrote: > > > If it looks healthy, why there are these errors on the screen? Is it > > > controller problem or disk? > > > > SCSI normally reports 3 things when it encounters an error (particularly > > disk errors): Sense Key (SK), Additional Sense Code (ASC), and > > Additional Sense Code Qualifier (ASCQ). > > > > What appears in the below screenshot is a large amount of sense data, > > but I can't make heads or tails out of it, because it's written in a > > driver-centric manner ("Encl PD" means nothing to me). I can read part > > of the CDB data, but it doesn't tell me much. Scott Long might know. > > > > http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/20081023_server3_screen_dump.png > > > > You should try asking the system manufacturer if they know what any > > of the data means. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |