On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 08:56:13PM -0500, Brandon Gooch wrote: > ... > > Any ideas on what mught be causing CURRENT to hang -- sometimes > > -- given that it appears to involve the Modular Bay (or the specific > > device that is in the bay during the hang)? > > > > If you haven't already, it may be worth trying 'options ATA_CAM' in > your kernel config. Well, I hadn't, so I tried it. And since I had read the note: # ATA_CAM: Turn ata(4) subsystem controller drivers into cam(4) # interface modules. This deprecates all ata(4) # peripheral device drivers (atadisk, ataraid, atapicd, # atapifd, atapist, atapicam) and all user-level APIs. # cam(4) drivers and APIs will be connected instead. I had an idea that /etc/fstab would need a global edit (though I didn't know what device would be used). Attempting a single-user mode boot clarified that for me: :s/ad4/ada0/ Fortunately, I'm in the habit of keeping more than one bootable slice around, so I was able to accomplish that. And -- probably more important for this discussion -- I was unable to re-create the failing condition: the machine booted Just Fine every time I tried it, whether the CD/DVD drive was inserted or not. Now, this seems a bit more like a circumvention or diagnostic aid (to me) than an actual solution -- or am I misunderstanding? Thanks for the suggestion, though! Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david_at_catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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