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From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
Cc: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>,
	Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>,
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Subject: Re: EIDE drive performance improvements
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:29:35PM -0500, Kenneth Culver wrote:
>> (There's no cdrom on this laptop) I added hw.ata.tags=1 to
>> /boot/loader.conf and will try a reboot momentarily, can I get around
>> the reboot? If it doesn't boot, how can I fix it?
>
>if it doesn't boot, when you get that screen when you first boot that
>counts down a timer, hit something other than enter, and type ?.
>
>Then look for an option that allows you to unset variables, and unset the
>hw.ata one.
>
>Ken
>

Well it 'seems' faster with the tags option, never heard of that, but we'll see if it croaks!

// George


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