From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 18:13: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 347F337B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CECA43FAF for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:13:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: by ns1.webwarrior.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 21772253B0; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:13:00 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:13:00 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel To: Bob Perry Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dmesg Analysis Message-ID: <20030325021300.GG716@ns1.webwarrior.net> References: <005701c2f273$6f9bd680$0501a8c0@HOMEFREE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005701c2f273$6f9bd680$0501a8c0@HOMEFREE> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-32.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:08:31PM -0500, Bob Perry wrote: > I recently upgraded/reinstalled 4.7 RELEASE and apparently lost use of my > SCSI tape backup system. The dmesg command indicates that FreeBSD found the > controller and tape but I don't understand much more than that. > > Does anyone know where I might find some documentation which would explain > output resulting from running dmesg? For instance, one of the lines reads: > sa0 at adv0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > ? > Just looking for some direction. > > Thanks > I don't know of any docs that really explain reading a dmesg in detail, but I'd be willing to help you sort your issues if you posted your dmesg. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message