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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:24:21 +0400
From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com>
To: JM <jmartin37@speakeasy.net>
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Subject: Re: disabling ata devices
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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?

--=20
Dmitry

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