Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: On the topic of noisy drivers... | Date | Wed, 1 May 1996 22:20:05 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike McLagan" <> |
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You (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: > > 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.
For the record, the line or two about drives is *NOT* the problem that I was mentioning originally. I was refering more to this:
aic7xxx: Chip reset not cleared; clearing manually. aic7xxx: Extended translation disabled. aic7xxx: AHA-2740 Rev C and previous. aic7xxx: Using 4 SCB's; No SCB memory check. aic7xxx: Using level sensitive interrupts. aic7xxx: Enabled channel B of AHA-2740-Twin. AHA-2740-TWIN AT EISA SLOT 1: irq 14 bus release time 60 bclks data fifo threshold 100 SCSI CHANNEL A: scsi id 7 scsi selection timeout 256 ms scsi bus reset at power-on enabled scsi bus parity enabled scsi bus termination (low byte) enabled aic7xxx: Downloading sequencer code...done. aic7xxx: Resetting the SCSI bus...done. scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 2.22/2.2/2.8 scsi : 1 host. aic7xxx: Scanning channel A for devices. aic7xxx: Target 0, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset(0xf). Vendor: MICROP Model: 1548-15MZ1077810 Rev: HZ2P Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 aic7xxx: Target 6, channel A, now synchronous at 4.0MHz, offset(0xf). Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3401TA Rev: 2873 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 aic7xxx: Scanning channel B for devices. scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total. SCSI Hardware sector size is 512 bytes on device sda
I think that this is excessive.
Mike was here...
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