From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 7 14:59:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA13146 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 14:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypher.net (black@zen.pratt.edu [205.232.115.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA13141 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 14:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from black@localhost) by cypher.net (8.8.7/8.7.1) id SAA17879; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:09:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:09:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black To: Jonathan Mini cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: evil disk drives. In-Reply-To: <19970907143644.18865@micron.efn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk perhaps i am just confused, but i thought only drives specifically listed with wd? lines were actually probed. On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Jonathan Mini wrote: > I have a hardcard in my crash machine that does not like having the "second > unit" on it's IDE interface probed. When this happens, it puts the card in a > messed state. As a result of this, it takes my machine a "little longer" to > boot that would be expected. > I was wondering if anybody would be interested in patches to allow the wdc > code to not probe various units on thier system? I plan on writing a quick hack > for myself, but if anybody shows interest, I would be willing to make a much > nicer patch. (Or is there such an option in place that I have missed?) > > -- > Jonathan Mini (j_mini@efn.org) Ingenious Productions > Software Development P.O. Box 5693 > Eugene, Or 97405 >