From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 13:58:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E4A16A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:58:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from mail.efacilitas.de (efacilitas.de [213.133.110.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D89B43D5C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:58:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from eurystheus.local (port-212-202-169-37.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.169.37]) by mail.efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F7FF1239D6; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:56:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3163A12B19F; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:56:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eurystheus.local ([192.168.1.67]) by localhost (eurystheus.locaL [192.168.1.67]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34258-08; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:56:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.67] (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8167F12B033; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:56:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42B03395.3030301@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:56:37 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JM References: <42B02ACC.2090705@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <42B02ACC.2090705@speakeasy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disabling ata devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:58:13 -0000 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. Please show the point where it takes time. You have a log in /var/run/dmesg.boot > how do i completely > disable probing for this device at startup? As far as I know this is not possible (I might be mistaken). Either you remove the hardware or the support for this piece of hardware. > 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. devfs provides a kind of virtual file system which will be created in respect of the devices that are known to the kernel. Everytime you unmount devfs all changes that were directly made to /dev are gone. > 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? The 'CD9660' option in the kernel configuration is a file system support and has nothing necessarily to do with support of hardware devices. I guess you mean 'device atapicd'. Björn