From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 20 00:21:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA13107 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 00:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA13054 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 00:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA19003; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:21:37 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA29592; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:21:37 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id JAA27733; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:15:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610200715.JAA27733@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 961014-SNAP probe problem To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:15:55 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: obrien@NUXI.cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610200206.TAA20399@relay.nuxi.com> from "David E. O'Brien" at "Oct 19, 96 07:06:51 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David E. O'Brien wrote: > > I think the mcd driver is a known offender for false detections. > > Disable it if you don't have an `mcd' drive. > > Yep, I did (the config screen works nice). Do you think this will be a > problem for releases? Ah, you mean, you disabled the driver, and it caused a false probe nevertheless??? The hint about disabling probes for all the device that are not present is in the installation documentation since FreeBSD 2.0.5, and i think there's even an emphasize on the mcd driver since too many people have experienced this problem. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)