Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:27:28 -0400 From: JM <jmartin37@speakeasy.net> To: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disabling ata devices Message-ID: <42B02CC0.60509@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <b7052e1e0506150624d9ec31d@mail.gmail.com> References: <42B02ACC.2090705@speakeasy.net> <b7052e1e0506150624d9ec31d@mail.gmail.com>
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Dmitry Mityugov wrote: >On 6/15/05, JM wrote: > > >>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? >> >> > >Is it possible to disable it in BIOS? > > > i was thinking more along the lines of telling the loader not to probe for it...
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