Ivan Voras wrote:
Tim Daneliuk wrote:
During the boot probe, FreeBSD 6.2 (Release or -STABLE) hangs for
several minutes
while probing the floppy. Eventually, it does get through it, but
it takes
a loooong time. Disabling the floppy in the machine BIOS makes the
problem
go away because FBSD sees no floppy to probe, but that's not an optimal
soltion.
Have you tried adding hint.fd.0.disabled="1" and hint.fdc.0.disabled="1"
to your loader.conf (or device.hints)? I don't know it it will work,
it's just something you could try.
I have not. If I do this, will it actually disable the floppy/controller?
The issue for me is that I want to be able to actually use the floppy
when I need it, I just don't want to have wait multiple minutes while
the kernel figures out there is not floppy in the drive at boot time...
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