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> From:		Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> 
> 
> This can be set on the loader command line, so it doesn't absolutely
> have to be in loader.conf to successfully boot.

Yes, Thanks, point taken, I was forgetting, 'cos of course I had
to set it live interactively first time to get FreeBSD to boot
before I could ed or vi /boot/loader.conf.

Nut if phoemix@harmless.hu wants to create a boot time autop evaluated
quirk table for ata, I'd be happy to test on my 2 laptops.

Julian
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