Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:03:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ahc boot messages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905191202350.69006-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199905191538.JAA08634@narnia.plutotech.com>
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On Wed, 19 May 1999, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > In article <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905181706210.25906-100000@picnic.mat.net> 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. Actually, I didn't, but you're telling me that I'm getting it anyway. OK, I can stop perstering the scsi list, at least. I specifically turned off verbose booting in /boot/loader.conf, darn it! > > > 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 > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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