DragonFly and FBSD 5.1
    Joshua Coombs 
    jcoombs at gwi.net
       
    Mon Oct 27 14:24:50 PST 2003
    
    
  
>     Maybe a 'hit 0 now to run the ATA driver in PIO mode.
5...4...3...2...1'
>     feature in the driver during booting for debugging purposes.
It would
>     take min(the number you press, what it would have done
otherwise).
>
>     (and also support hitting 1, 2, 3, 4, etc..).
>
>     I'm only half joking!
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
For refrence, I believe QNX does exactly that at boot.
Josh C
    
    
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