devb-eide spitting up errors

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Hey, all. After quite a while, I’m SO happy that our x86 system is now
properly booting from compact flash. Right now, the system boots just fine
using the standard QNX diskboot program, but this is slow and using -s
didn’t seem to stop all of the searching.

Normally I’d just launch devb-eide myself:

devb-eide &

For some reason though I’m getting about 2 pages of “scsi_interpret_sense”
errors along with a bunch of SCSI standard error codes and state
information. After that, everything works peachy – it’s just the startup
that looks ugly. What is this, is there something that ought to be fixed,
and if so, what/how? This occurs both on the VL Panther we have and my
desktop PC here (running QNX 6).

Thanks in advance for any pointers (hopefully I haven’t missed a thread on
this already…)

Adam C.
acoates@stanford.edu

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Ack - sry 'bout the mislabled “from” field. Silly Outlook…

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QNX <acoates@stanford.edu> wrote:

Normally I’d just launch devb-eide myself:
devb-eide &
For some reason though I’m getting about 2 pages of “scsi_interpret_sense”
errors along with a bunch of SCSI standard error codes and state

These are probably just normal/informative messages (about media not
present, or illegal commands such as various MODE SENSE queries being
rejected by some devices), when as you say things are working fine.

Do a “pidin -Pdevb-eide arg” from the standard/system startup and
see what arguments get passed to the default via-diskboot invocation;
it’ll likely include “cam quiet” which stops those sorts of messages
being displayed to screen (I think they’ll still go to slogger).