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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 1996 04:15:13 +0000
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        jdiesel@iee.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hard Disk, answers ... 
Message-ID:  <2241.827900113@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:17:33 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960326181310.432H-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> 

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Doug White wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.91.960326181310.432H-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Jason Diesel wrote:
> > I did boot with the -c option, and have tried both the visual 
> > interfaces and the normal one. One thing I did notice, is the "probe" 
> > feature is not in the 2.1.0 release, although the doc says so! I 
> > think that would be a clue. Maybe I should try the 2.0.5 release to 
> > see if it can find my missing things.

> ?? I don't understand.  My system probes just fine.  The "probing" is on 
> startup, when the kernel goes through your devices and gets information 
> about them.  It does it automatically.  Also, the kernel won't probe in 
> -c until you "exit" from it.  

He means the ``probe'' command, which used to be in UserConfig, but we
found that too many drivers crashed the system when used with the
probe command, or didn't recover afterwards and failed to probe during
boot, so it was removed.

Gary




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