Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Thu, 2 May 1996 15:19:25 +0200 | Subject | Re: On the topic of noisy drivers... |
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On 1 May 96 at 19:09, Steven L Baur wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David A Willmore <willmore@cig.mot.com> writes: > > David> Oh, increased information is great. Taking one whole screen > David> line to tell me that each of sd[abcdef] uses 512 byte hardware > David> sector size is over the hill. How about one line saying > David> sda:512, sdb:512, ... that would be nice and still contain all > David> of the informatin. > > David> WRT scrollback, there is none on a Herc mono card. Sure, I can > David> syslog after boot, but I might not be able to get that far. > David> Anyone have any ATI EGA wonders that they want to get rid of? > David> ;) > > I guess I'd be bummed too if all I got was the sector size, and then > couldn't scroll backwards if necessary. The Adaptec driver prints out: >
I'm sorry, but the messages below are NOT from the adaptec driver; they are from the SCSI disk driver (sd.c).
> Apr 29 14:06:59 worf kernel: scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total. > Apr 29 14:06:59 worf kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1056768 [516 MB] [0.5 GB] > Apr 29 14:06:59 worf kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1065235 [520 MB] [0.5 GB] > > Which although redundant, contains more useful information than just > the sector size, and having it on its own line makes grep more useful > in looking at the machine history. > > If stuff is scrolling by too fast at boot and the boot is failing turn > off the internal and external cache. That should slow things down a bit. > -- > steve@miranova.com baur > Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour. > Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone > except you in November.
Ulrich
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