----- Original Message ----- From: "taxman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bob Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:08 PM Subject: Re: dmesg Analysis
> On Monday 24 March 2003 09:08 pm, 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 > > many (most?) of the items in dmesg are device drivers and have manpages. > so first read man man then try things like > man -aw sa you'll see: > /usr/share/man/cat8/sa.8.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man8/sa.8.gz) > /usr/share/man/man4/sa.4.gz > which tells you there are two man pages for sa. one is what you are looking > for, one is not, so use > man 4 sa to see the right one. > > repeat that for all the things in dmesg and you'll learn a lot of what you're > looking for. I'll pay more attention to the man pages. Thanks for the input. > This can potentially throw you off by some things that have the same name and > are not device drivers. eg man 4 fd wil not get you the floppy driver, but > man 4 fdc will. > > hth, > > Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
