From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 14:02:52 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 C1B2916A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:02:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0339943D5F for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:02:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so1496670wra for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:02:50 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LAAliSdvZ3+EsLNuZ25oUyrfkpb47gjIwrO/an5mktWPVn1BRkgI1F+2YUwnAOoDDdraRFYDvXULcTMFKHZ3WXBsRG5NXfJqnsm8VW8DnEaMVbDUZtqka5/ip7rVPP3HsYJkdMT7o7j1sN0QvuSmaIG+Bwd4jFSAwyBIqK+ezrA= Received: by 10.54.2.49 with SMTP id 49mr4119296wrb; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.56.33 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:02:50 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov To: JM In-Reply-To: <42B02CC0.60509@speakeasy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42B02ACC.2090705@speakeasy.net> <42B02CC0.60509@speakeasy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disabling ata devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Dmitry Mityugov List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:02:52 -0000 On 6/15/05, JM 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"