From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 6 21:21:09 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB2B16A41B for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:21:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [66.92.130.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3829013C465 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:21:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l86LL4eE056565 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:21:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <46E06F40.8050500@tundraware.com> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:21:04 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Voras References: <46DECDBB.3000906@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-tundraware.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2 Hangs Probing Floppy During Boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:21:09 -0000 Ivan Voras wrote: > Tim Daneliuk wrote: > >> During the boot probe, FreeBSD 6.2 (Release or -STABLE) hangs for >> several minutes >> while probing the floppy. Eventually, it does get through it, but >> it takes >> a loooong time. Disabling the floppy in the machine BIOS makes the >> problem >> go away because FBSD sees no floppy to probe, but that's not an optimal >> soltion. > > Have you tried adding hint.fd.0.disabled="1" and hint.fdc.0.disabled="1" > to your loader.conf (or device.hints)? I don't know it it will work, > it's just something you could try. > I have not. If I do this, will it actually disable the floppy/controller? The issue for me is that I want to be able to actually use the floppy when I need it, I just don't want to have wait multiple minutes while the kernel figures out there is not floppy in the drive at boot time... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/