Re: On the topic of noisy drivers...

David A Willmore (willmore@cig.mot.com)
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 14:53:21 -0500


On Apr 29, 11:12pm, Mike McLagan wrote:
> Is there *ANY* reason that the AIC77x0 driver needs to spew it's life's
> story onto the console during bootup? Seems to me that 99% of what it spits
> out is extraneous!
>
> Maybe gagging it for 2.0 would be a good idea?

I have to agree here. The number of lines that scroll by when my six disk SCSI
system boots is silly. Do I really need six lines to tell me that my disks all
use 512 byte hardware sectors? Partition information is line this, too. Maybe
I just have too many drives....

Cheers,
David