From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 14:39:37 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 0A6B016A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:39:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmartin37@speakeasy.net) Received: from mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA30043D4C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:39:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmartin37@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 9760 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2005 14:08:45 -0000 Received: from adsl-211-141-154.asm.bellsouth.net (HELO [192.168.2.101]) (moonlightcheese@[68.211.141.154]) (envelope-sender ) by mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 Jun 2005 14:08:45 -0000 Message-ID: <42B0366A.2020701@speakeasy.net> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:08:42 -0400 From: JM User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.3 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Mityugov References: <42B02ACC.2090705@speakeasy.net> <42B02CC0.60509@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 14:39:37 -0000 Dmitry Mityugov wrote: >On 6/15/05, JM wrote: > > >>Dmitry Mityugov wrote: >> >> >> >>>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? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>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="1" > > > i thought about this but the ad0 and acd0 are on the same controller... i think. is there some hardware probe i can use to confirm which controller each ata device belongs to (corresponding to the device.hints entry...)