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Date:      Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:16:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Cc:        Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, abial@nask.pl, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys bus.h src/sys/kern subr_bus.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9901201614590.8926-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901191431260.64597-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>

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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, John Fieber wrote:
> To this:
> 
> da0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>     <FUJITSU M1606S-512 6226> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
>     10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled
>     1041MB (2131992 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 132C) 
> da1 at ncr0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
>     <SEAGATE ST32155N 0594> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
>     10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled
>     2049MB (4197405 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261C)
> cd0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
>     <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3501TA 2694> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device 
>     4.237MB/s transfers (4.237MHz, offset 8)
>     cd present [304767 x 2048 byte records]
> 
> makes it quite a bit easier to quickly zero in on the information
> you are after.  The long string of almost-the-same three or four
> letter device labels makes it cumbersome visually identify
> distinct devices in the list.

Actually, that sucks because `dmesg | grep ^da0` becomes useless.

Why not come up with a dmesg bootup pretty printer that runs after the
splashscreen?

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