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Subject: RE: disabling ata devices
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just unplug the cable and/or power to the hardware device

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John Brooks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dmitry Mityugov
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:24 AM
> To: JM
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: disabling ata devices
>
>
> 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 still
> > 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?
>
> --
> Dmitry
>
> "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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