Disable SCSI probe

Richard Smith rsmith at trltech.co.uk
Wed Dec 8 09:39:09 GMT 1999


Campbell Allan wrote:
> 
> Cool, you don't need to mail from the subscribed address. Anyway, I'm new to
> FreeBSD but I'm okay with Linux (not a newbie but by no means an expert
> either)  and have been trying to install release 3.3. Each time the kernel
> probes the SCSI controller (an Advansys 2903C) and times out for each and
> every device ID 5 times. I'm trying to find out if there is a way of
> disabling the probe without removing the card or enabling the plug and play
> OS bios option. Disabling the device driver in the kernel does not alleviate
> the problem.

When you say you disabled the device driver, did you disable a "device"
line or a "controller" line in the config file? If there's no SCSI
controller, it can't probe the SCSI interface card, can it?


> Any help or advice with this would be really appreciated because I'm stumped
> with this

Post the output of `dmesg' to the list, someone might be able to help.

FWIW, not much :-)
Richard.





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