Re: "disable ata" in kernel configuration not working?

From: Vladislav V. Zhuk (admin_at_dru.dn.ua)
Date: 06/02/03

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    To: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
    
    

    On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:22:21PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:

    > I have an up-to-date FreeBSD 4-STABLE system with onboard ATA controller
    > (VIA 82C586-mumble) but no ATA/ATAPI devices (SCSI only).
    >
    > I tried putting
    >
    > disable ata
    > disable ata0
    > disable ata1
    > quit
    >
    > into /boot/kernel.conf to skip probing these devices (it hangs until
    > timeout), but to no avail, the kernel still sees ata0 and ata1 and
    > probes for drives (which takes several dozen seconds).
    >
    > I see at boot-up that these disable instructions are executed (the
    > corresponding loader.conf flag is set).
    >
    > I also tried disabling atapci0 which is what I see, but that one is
    > rejected with something like "no such device".
    >
    > Is this a known issue or should I file a PR?

    It's one of well known demonstration of bugs new ATA driver.
    This BUG is very strong and don't resolve in kernel.conf.
    I wrote about this 3 times, but Soren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org>
    is very busy for resolving this problem more than 1 year
    or don't read stable@ and e-mail.

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