From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Jun 2 21:31:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from wondermutt.net (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A526637BA3D; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:31:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Received: from morgaine.udel.edu (morgaine.wondermutt.net [192.168.1.2]) by wondermutt.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA04323; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 00:31:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000603003152.00adfbd0@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 00:34:08 -0400 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" From: John Subject: Re: Dying connection? Cc: Mike Smith , John Lengeling , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000601235026.A98092@panzer.kdm.org> References: <4.3.1.2.20000602013902.00ae1330@mail.udel.edu> <200006020538.WAA01381@mass.cdrom.com> <4.3.1.2.20000602013902.00ae1330@mail.udel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > Well, this kinda brings up another question that I had posted to > > > > freebsd-questions a few weeks back.... I found info describing > *what* CAM > > > > is and is supposed to do (http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs), but is > > > there a > > > > read-me or a txt file or *anything* someplace to describe how to > set it up > > > > and configure it correctly. Just point me in the right direction :) > > > > > >There's nothing to "set up" or "configure"; there are no > > >user-maintainable parts inside. You have hardware issues; bitching about > > >CAM is entirely irrelevant. > > > > This was NOT a bitch. It was a request for help and info. I currently do > > NOT have cam enabled, so it would be wrong for me to "bitch" about it. I > > simply don't want to go willy-nilly adding kernel options without making > > sure that I'm doing it correctly. > >Ahh, but you do have CAM enabled. If you've got the scbus device in your >config file, you've got CAM. I must have been out the day that this clue was handed out :) >So you probably don't need to add anything to your kernel config file, >unless you don't have the pass(4) driver configured. (You can't get the >defects list off the drive with camcontrol(8) without it.) So, to address curiosity, I recompiled with the pass device in the kernel. Now, using "camcontrol defects -f phys -P", I get the following nice long list. Does it mean anything in the end run? Also, from within the Adaptec SCSI bios, if I run their "media check", all turns up ok. Thanks again, John Errors: 182:3:66 183:3:197 183:3:198 183:3:199 183:3:200 184:3:123 200:3:85 201:3:12 202:3:142 331:4:8 332:4:138 333:4:65 403:3:1 404:3:131 404:3:132 404:3:133 404:3:134 405:3:58 511:3:104 512:3:31 512:3:32 513:3:161 768:0:97 769:0:24 770:0:154 1810:3:114 1811:3:43 1812:3:168 1813:3:12 1813:3:13 1813:3:14 1813:3:15 1814:3:137 1815:3:67 1815:3:68 1815:3:69 1815:3:70 1816:3:192 1817:3:121 1818:3:51 2170:3:8 2171:3:133 2172:3:63 2173:3:102 2174:3:32 2175:3:156 3967:4:118 3968:4:54 3969:4:168 4039:4:130 4039:4:131 4039:4:132 4039:4:133 4039:4:134 4039:4:135 4039:4:136 4039:4:137 4040:4:68 4040:4:69 4040:4:70 4040:4:71 4040:4:72 4040:4:73 4040:4:74 4040:4:75 4041:4:6 4041:4:7 4041:4:8 4041:4:9 4041:4:10 4041:4:11 4041:4:12 4041:4:13 4064:0:45 4065:0:155 4065:0:156 4066:0:93 4613:5:9 4614:5:110 4615:5:3 5819:0:20 5820:0:108 5820:0:109 5820:0:110 5821:0:58 5825:7:55 5826:7:5 5827:7:93 6178:1:60 6179:1:127 6180:1:80 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message