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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:06:44 -0600
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI retries without errors in /var/log/messages?
Message-ID:  <20000911130644.A50024@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000911162530.34FC599C8C@waltz.rahul.net>; from dhesi@rahul.net on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:25:30AM -0700
References:  <20000911162530.34FC599C8C@waltz.rahul.net>

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On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:25:30 -0700, Rahul Dhesi wrote:
> At various times, on various machines, I have observed a situation where
> SCSI hardware responds very slowly.   I suspect that many recoverable
> SCSI errors are occuring.  But no error messages are logged in
> /var/log/messages.
> 
> Is the above possible?  Or should I expect that if no error messages are
> logged, then excessive SCSi retries are not occurring and I should look
> elsewhere for the cause?
> 
> I am currently logging
> 
>   *.notice;kern.debug
> 
> to /var/log/messages.  This is sufficient to cause all recoverable
> SCSI errors to be logged, is it not?

SCSI errors that we recover from aren't logged.  Anything that is logged
will show up in the dmesg.  If you don't see the things in
/var/log/messages that are in the dmesg, you'll probably need to adjust
your syslog settings.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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