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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 2002 12:49:15 -0500
From:      George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
To:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
Cc:        George Georgalis <george@galis.org>, Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>, Nick Lozinsky <nl3481@wi.rr.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: EIDE drive performance improvements
Message-ID:  <20020404124915.A11927@trot.haven.dom>
In-Reply-To: <20020404121933.S62032-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>; from culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:29:35PM -0500
References:  <20020404115030.B10503@trot.haven.dom> <20020404121933.S62032-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>

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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:29:35PM -0500, Kenneth Culver wrote:
>> (There's no cdrom on this laptop) I added hw.ata.tags=1 to
>> /boot/loader.conf and will try a reboot momentarily, can I get around
>> the reboot? If it doesn't boot, how can I fix it?
>
>if it doesn't boot, when you get that screen when you first boot that
>counts down a timer, hit something other than enter, and type ?.
>
>Then look for an option that allows you to unset variables, and unset the
>hw.ata one.
>
>Ken
>

Well it 'seems' faster with the tags option, never heard of that, but we'll see if it croaks!

// George


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