From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 18 21:28:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA03204 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 21:28:16 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA03195 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 21:28:14 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id UAA21985; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 20:45:05 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503190445.UAA21985@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: kern/248: scbus attach/probe printf inconsistency To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 20:45:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: dufault@hda.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@Shockwave.COM In-Reply-To: <199503190432.OAA05826@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 19, 95 02:32:49 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 863 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Please move the "### C ###H ... " stuff under a if(bootverbose). > > >For two reasons, first: a normal boot must be readable. second: it's > >bogus and confuses the heck out of people. > > It used to almost readable as "%d cyl, %d head, %d sec, bytes/sec %d". > I think the number of cylinders, heads and bytes/sec is usually non-bogus. > The sometimes-variable number of sectors/track doesn't confuse me :-). Bruce, it doesn't confuse me, but I have got too many emails of the type I (made the following mistake) then I thought, Hmm, lets try the geometry they print at boot, and now my MSDOS is gone.. Make it readable or not, but only show it during a "verbose" boot. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'