Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:40:43 +0100 (MET) From: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 suggestions Message-ID: <199612031440.PAA12143@server.us.tld>
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> >1.) I have just increased the kernel buffer size in /usr/include/sys/msgbuf.h > > as I was advised by Joerg Wunsch. > > It works great. Now I can see all kernel start messages when invoking > > dmesg. Since I have 14 devices attached to 2 Adaptec 2940 this was not > > possible before. > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to increase this number in general, let's say > > to 8k, in 2.2 and in current? > > hmm, maybe. There are already 3 people who emailed me asking how exactly it had to be done. They all said, it would be nice if the buffer was increased by default :-) > >2.) In function Disk_Names, which resides in /usr/src/lib/libdisk/disk.c, > > the maximum number of disks probed is limited to 10 for each device > > type wd* or sd*. This means, that my disks sd10 to sd14 won't get > > recognized by Disk_Names and therefore by sysinstall. Even > > if you haven't got this number of disks, sd10 can be reached quickly, > > by wiring down targets 0-6 at scbus 0 to sd0-6 and targets 0-6 at scbus 1 > > to sd8-14 as I am doing it at the moment. > > Maybe it makes sence to increase this number too. My suggestion would be > > 16 or 32 at the moment. > If you have that many disks, you will soon grow out of screen-real-estate > too, so I don't think this is really important... That's true. For me it works, since I use sysinstall only for the root fs and do other disks later by hand. I only wondered if there is also another use of Disk_Names() somwhere else where it might become important...
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