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Date:      Sat, 25 Mar 1995 01:59:42 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi sd.c
Message-ID:  <199503241559.BAA24505@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>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



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