Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:08:42 -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: <42B0366A.2020701@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <b7052e1e050615070211b9d064@mail.gmail.com> References: <42B02ACC.2090705@speakeasy.net> <b7052e1e0506150624d9ec31d@mail.gmail.com> <42B02CC0.60509@speakeasy.net> <b7052e1e050615070211b9d064@mail.gmail.com>
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Dmitry Mityugov wrote: >On 6/15/05, JM <jmartin37@speakeasy.net> wrote: > > >>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... >> >> > >Not sure if this will work but if the CD-ROM device is on a separate >ATA controller, you can try to disable with with corresponding >"disabled" statement in /boot/device.hints, like > >hint.ata.1.disabled="1" > > > i thought about this but the ad0 and acd0 are on the same controller... i think. is there some hardware probe i can use to confirm which controller each ata device belongs to (corresponding to the device.hints entry...)
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