"disable ata" in kernel configuration not working?

[Vladislav V. Zhuk]

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 at 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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