Re: On the topic of noisy drivers...
David A Willmore (willmore@cig.mot.com)
Thu, 2 May 1996 12:32:34 -0500
On May 1, 10:20pm, Mike McLagan wrote:
> 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.
I agree. I get three lines of this/drive. Later, I get one line/drive for
hardware sector size. Later, yet, I get one line/drive for partition
information. I'm going to see if I can hack some of this to be more terse.
Cheers,
David