From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed May 19 8:48:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0ED14E70 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 08:48:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.9.1/8.7.3) id JAA08634; Wed, 19 May 1999 09:38:40 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:38:40 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199905191538.JAA08634@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Chuck Robey Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ahc boot messages X-Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.scsi In-Reply-To: User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article you wrote: > I recently got my new DK440LX motherboard cranking (it's great!) and > I've not seen the ahc driver since back in 1.1.5.1 days. It went real > smoothly getting it going (well, one f-u, but we won't talk about that > :-) .... anyhow, I noticed the boot messages produced by the ahc driver, > it seemed excessively verbose. The DK440LX has the 7895 controller > which has 2 busses, and all targets on both buses get a line each to > announce their status. I get a LOT of these lines: > > ahc0: Selection Timeout on A:1. 1 SCBs aborted If you don't like the messages, stop booting with the verbose flag. You asked for the system to be verbose, and so it is. > 32 lines of this. Isn't this really excessive? For anyone? Even if > the messages are needed (and I like having the message) it wouldn't be > all that difficult to come up with a format to squeeze all messages from > each buss into 2 lines (one header, one data line) so all the info could > still be displayed, but in a far more readable format. Each of those messages occurs ~250ms apart. How does the controller know in advance if a device will respond to selection? It doesn't. The main reason I added the message is so you can determine why a device was either not found at boot, or disappears after boot has completed. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message