Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:02:50 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: JM <jmartin37@speakeasy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disabling ata devices Message-ID: <b7052e1e050615070211b9d064@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42B02CC0.60509@speakeasy.net> References: <42B02ACC.2090705@speakeasy.net> <b7052e1e0506150624d9ec31d@mail.gmail.com> <42B02CC0.60509@speakeasy.net>
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On 6/15/05, JM <jmartin37@speakeasy.net> wrote: > Dmitry Mityugov wrote: >=20 > >On 6/15/05, JM wrote: > > > > > >>i'm not exactly sure how to accomplish this... i'm having problems with > >>my cd-rom, which isn't surprising since it's a slim-line without UDMA > >>and probably isn't supported... but... it's eating up time when i'm > >>booting the system. i've erased the fstab lines for acd0 but it's stil= l > >>probing the hardware when i boot the machine. how do i completely > >>disable probing for this device at startup? if possible i'd like to > >>just remove the device node altogether. every time i remove /dev/acd0 > >>it's just recreated each time i restart. not sure how to permanently > >>remove it without physically removing it from the system. is there > >>anyway to remove the node without removing the iso9660 entry from the > >>kernel? > >> > >> > > > >Is it possible to disable it in BIOS? > > > > > > > i was thinking more along the lines of telling the loader not to probe > for it... Not sure if this will work but if the CD-ROM device is on a separate ATA controller, you can try to disable with with corresponding "disabled" statement in /boot/device.hints, like hint.ata.1.disabled=3D"1" --=20 Dmitry "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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