dmesg - message buffer of the kernel | /var/log/messages | watch "dmesg | tail -20" | dmesg | grep sda

To discover which hard disks has been detected by kernel, you can search for the keyword “sda” along with “grep” like shown below.

[root@tecmint.com ~]# dmesg | grep sda
[    1.280971] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 488281250 512-byte logical blocks: (250 GB/232 GiB)
[    1.281014] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    1.281016] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    1.281039] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    1.359585]  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
[    1.360052] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    2.347887] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   22.928440] Adding 3905532k swap on /dev/sda6.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:3905532k FS
[   23.950543] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro
[   24.134016] EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   24.330762] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   24.561015] EXT4-fs (sda8): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

Monitoring dmesg in Real Time
Some distro allows command ‘tail -f /var/log/dmesg’ as well for real time dmesg monitoring.

[root@tecmint.com log]# watch "dmesg | tail -20"
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/var/log/messages file (and/or dmesg). It may shed some light on why the connection is failing.

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