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Title:Ask the Storage Architecture Group
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Moderator:SSAG::TERZAN
Created:Wed Oct 15 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6756
Total number of notes:25276

6519.0. ""verify sanity" command?" by TKTVFS::NAKAMURA_Y () Wed Mar 26 1997 07:23

	Hello,

	Our DECsafe system is sometime reported following errorlog. 

	What is the "verify sanity" command?

	Best regards.
	Yasuhide Nakamura

******************************** ENTRY   65 ********************************


Logging OS                        2. Digital UNIX
System Architecture               2. Alpha
Event sequence number           839.
Timestamp of occurrence              26-MAR-1997 09:20:06
Host name                            oske1

System type register      x0000000C  AlphaServer 8x00
Number of CPUs (mpnum)    x00000004
CPU logging event (mperr) x00000008

Event validity                    1. O/S claims event is valid
Event severity                    1. Severe Priority
Entry type                      199. CAM SCSI Event Type


------- Unit Info -------
Bus Number                        4.
Unit Number                   xFFFF  Target =   7.
                                     LUN =   7.
                                     Not Defined
------- CAM Data -------
Class                           x33  SIMport Adapter - KZxSA
Subsystem                       x33  SIMport Adapter - KZxSA
Number of Packets                 2.

------ Packet Type ------       258. Module Name String

Routine Name                         spo_verify_adap_sanity

------ Packet Type ------       256. Generic String

                                     Adapter didn't respond to 'verify sanity'

                                     command


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6519.1SMURF::KNIGHTFred KnightWed Mar 26 1997 15:019
The SIMport driver sends the adapter a "hey, how ya doing"
command every 30 seconds or so.  If it responds, we know
that all is well.  If not, we log the error you are seeing,
and I think we reset the adapter and reissue any
outstanding I/Os.

The command we send is called "verify sanity".

	Fred
6519.2thanks!TKTVFS::NAKAMURA_YWed Mar 26 1997 18:044
	Thank you for your quick response.

	Yasuhide