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 -- ====================================================================== Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22_pre2-gss) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ ====================================================================== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
