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
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