From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 24 08:03:31 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA06283 for current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 08:03:31 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA06273 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 08:03:23 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id BAA24505; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 01:59:42 +1000 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 01:59:42 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199503241559.BAA24505@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@Root.COM Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi sd.c Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>What's wrong with verbose output? I like it except when it scrolls too >>fast to read or fills up the message buffer. The right way to fix this > It obscures important information, and important information scrolls off >the screen before it can be seen; relying on the message buffer to contain >it all doesn't help if your disk controller isn't attached correctly or the >new user doesn't know about 'dmesg'. I'd prefer a much more quiet startup than >what we even had previously. The syscons scrollback buffer could be enlarged too. There's normally lots of free memory available at boot time so it wouldn't hurt to allocate huge message and scrolllback buffers if you reduce them later. Bruce