> 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.
Thanks Josh, I have a SCSI Seagate TapeStor system that worked fine under 4.5 RELEASE. It worked equally as well when I tried a binary upgrade to 4.7. There were too many other problems with the upgrade so later I did a complete install of 4.7. This is where I found that my tape system no longer responded to any mt commands. I ran the command dmesg | grep sa0 for the tape device and got the following: sa0 at adv0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 sa0: <Seagate STT20000N 6451> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 10,000 MB/s transfers (10,000 MHz, offset 15) Also ran dmesg | grep adv0 for the controller: adv0: AdvanSys Ultra SCSI Host Adapter SCSI ID 7, queue depth 240 adv0: <AdvanSys ASC3030/50 SCSI controller> port 0xb400-0xb4ff mem 0x5000000-0xd50000ff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0 My kernel SCSI controller data reads: adv0 at isa? My kernel SCSI peripheral data reads: sa Sequential Access (tape, etc) The best I can pull from this is that FreeBSD finds the tape and controller when it boots. Thanks again To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message