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To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Booting from CD..? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 01:21:00 -0800
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>speaking of userconfig. Is there any chance to re-enable the "probe"
>command ? It disapperared a few months ago (march ?), and I think
>it was very useful, especially when using software-configurable cards.

   No, it was very broken and caused people's machines to crash. We got far
too many trouble reports about it and fixing it requires, in some cases,
rewriting the device drivers.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project