Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:45:57 -0500 From: "John Brooks" <john@day-light.com> To: "Dmitry Mityugov" <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com>, "JM" <jmartin37@speakeasy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: disabling ata devices Message-ID: <NHBBKEEMKJDINKDJBJHGCECLJEAD.john@day-light.com> In-Reply-To: <b7052e1e0506150624d9ec31d@mail.gmail.com>
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just unplug the cable and/or power to the hardware device -- John Brooks john@day-light.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dmitry Mityugov > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:24 AM > To: JM > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: disabling ata devices > > > 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? > > -- > Dmitry > > "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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