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From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
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Subject: Re: bin/36911: [ata] ATA cannot be disabled with hints or through
 BIOS
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The following reply was made to PR bin/36911; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, j_guojun@lbl.gov
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/36911: [ata] ATA cannot be disabled with hints or through
 BIOS
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:50:26 +0400

 Hi, Jin.
 
 ata(4) drivers doesn't use device hints mechanism. So
 you can't disable it via hints. If you don't want to use
 it then remove ata(4) from your kernel and driver will not
 use any resources.
 
 -- 
 WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov