Xenix console error message problem

[Brian Chapman]

In article <2596 at gandalf.UUCP> alayne at 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.
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