just unplug the cable and/or power to the hardware device -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dmitry Mityugov > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:24 AM > To: JM > Cc: [email protected] > 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" > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
