Hardware :: Spamming Plenty Of Output About External Disks On Booting
Aug 4, 2009
When my 2 external usb hard drives (just storage based on ext3) are plugged and I'm booting Linux, it starts spamming plenty of output about these devices. I think during loading sensors daemon. At the end hangs. Previously I've noticed that the same happened on terminals. It was annoying, because spam was flooding even vim editor. I see this after major system update or rather new Linux installation. What I supposed to switch off to avoid this unwanted output?
Code:
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes" #MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_powersave !dm-mod !speedstep-centrino r8169 iwl3945 !ipw3945 !snd-hda-intel !snd-mixer-oss !snd-pcm-oss !snd-hwdep !snd-page-alloc !snd-pcm !snd-timer !snd !soundcore evdev psmouse !loop !bridge vboxdrv !autofs4 !capability usblp usbcore ohci_hcd ehci_hcd uhci_hcd !dm-crypt !aes-i586 !sha256 !osscore)
# # DAEMONS
# # # Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
# DAEMONS=(syslog-ng acpid sensors network netfs hal avahi-daemon cups crond oss)
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Code:
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[Code]...
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Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
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Disk identifier: 0x00086c27
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