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On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> Great!
>
> If you compile your kernel with 'verbose scsi logging', you have
> access to a lot of scsi debugging. Turn on debugging in the kernel
> with
>
> echo "scsi log all" >/proc/scsi/sci
I can do this, but the problem with logging all the events is that you'll
end up with a 15 or 20 meg log file filled with events from hard drive
accesses. Does anyone know how to tell it to activate verbose logging
only events from a specific device?
>
> Now, what I need to see is the log from the following:
>
> (1) Mount the ORB drive
> (2) Let it spin down (I understand this happens on its own after a while)
> (3) Try to read from the device
>
> Note that for step 3 it's important that the device actually is accessed,
> so I would recommend doing something like a directory listing of a
> directory you haven't looked at since step (1), or reading from a very
> large file.
>
> I suspect that when the ORB spins up, it's going to report that it's been
> reset as a power-on condition. But I don't know for sure.
>
> Thanks for all your help!
>
> Matt
>
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:34:33AM -0400, .sig wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> >
> > > I'm a linux kernel developer who is working on the USB Mass Storage driver.
> > > I'm seeing some odd behavior with a USB ORB drive during it's spin-down/up
> > > cycles. The USB unit is basically a SCSI unit with a bridge adaptor.
> > >
> > > I suspect that the problems I'm seeing are really related to the SCSI part
> > > of the unit, not the USB. To confirm that, I'd like to get in touch with
> > > someone who has a SCSI ORB drive. I'd need to see some logs from a
> > > spin-down/up -- you might have to recompile your kernel to turn debugging
> > > on, but would _not_ have to run any special code that I provide.
> > >
> > > Any volunteers?
> >
> > Yeah, sure. I've got a SCSI orb drive attached to an Adaptec 2940. It
> > works great. I'd be happy to help you out.
> >
> > --
> > cya
> > .sig
> >
> > Aaron VanDevender
> > (.sig (DOT), [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
>
>
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