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From: chapman@sco.COM (Brian Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix console error message problem
Keywords: console error messages
Message-ID: <923@fiasco.sco.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 89 02:09:13 GMT
References: <2596@gandalf.UUCP>
Reply-To: chapman@sco.COM (Brian Chapman)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <2596@gandalf.UUCP> alayne@gandalf.UUCP (Alayne McGregor) writes:

> OK, so how do I stop the kernel from barfing error messages onto the
> current multiscreen

In the special case of the floppy driver their is an ioctl()
that suppresses error messages from the floppy driver.
turn error messages off:
	ioctl(floppy_fd, FLIOCPRT, 1);
turn error messages back on:
	ioctl(floppy_fd, FLIOCPRT, 0);
This feature goes back to Xenix 2.2.

A completly different solution is to boot up w/ serial console
then all the error messages will go to the serial console.
	-- Chapman
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Brian Chapman		uunet!sco!chapman
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