From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 13:00:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70F916A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:00:11 +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 B6E6643D53 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:00:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmartin37@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 8569 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2005 13:00:09 -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 13:00:09 -0000 Message-ID: <42B02654.2040904@speakeasy.net> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:00:04 -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: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: disabling ata devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:00:12 -0000 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?