On Monday 13 Oct 2003 22:25, Eduardo Silva wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Don't know if I've put the subject title correctly. Basically the
> issue is that I have a laptop PC which when I go to the office, I
> connect to a docking station.
>
> The docking station basically allow me to have an extra LAN port,
> SCSI port, parallel port, and keyboard/mice PS/2 ports.
>
> I don't know why but when I connect Gentoo on the docking, the
> probing for SCSI hw find the adaptec card which control my SCSI port,
> but for some reason it enters a loop trying to address it (I think?)
> I don't have the particular output, as it occurs at statup and I
> didn't have another PC to record the exact message, but I was
> wondering whether I could disable the scsi hw probing (or even if
> necessary the hw probing in general !?)
>
> thanks for any help, and I hope I don't sound to vague or confusing

emerge discover, then you can add the scsi module to /etc/
discover-autoskip.conf.  Mine has just one line:
skip aic7xxx

...and booting is much faster.

Peter
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