From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 1 09:37:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23018 for current-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:37:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [146.254.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA23008 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:37:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (salomon.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.3/8.8.0) with ESMTP id SAA00693 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:34:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.zfe.siemens.de (root@curry.zfe.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.2/8.8.0) with ESMTP id SAA02940 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:37:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from server.us.tld (server.us.tld [192.168.16.33]) by curry.zfe.siemens.de (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA24341 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:37:43 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andre@localhost) by server.us.tld (8.8.3/8.8.3) id SAA22585 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:37:43 +0100 (MET) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199612011737.SAA22585@server.us.tld> Subject: 2 suggestions for 2.2 and current To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:37:43 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi *, 1.) I have just increased the kernel buffer size in /usr/include/sys/msgbuf.h as I was advised by Joerg Wunsch. It works great. Now I can see all kernel start messages when invoking dmesg. Since I have 14 devices attached to 2 Adaptec 2940 this was not possible before. Wouldn't it be a good idea to increase this number in general, let's say to 8k, in 2.2 and in current? 2.) In function Disk_Names, which resides in /usr/src/lib/libdisk/disk.c, the maximum number of disks probed is limited to 10 for each device type wd* or sd*. This means, that my disks sd10 to sd14 won't get recognized by Disk_Names and therefore by sysinstall. Even if you haven't got this number of disks, sd10 can be reached quickly, by wiring down targets 0-6 at scbus 0 to sd0-6 and targets 0-6 at scbus 1 to sd8-14 as I am doing it at the moment. Maybe it makes sence to increase this number too. My suggestion would be 16 or 32 at the moment. Thanks Andre