From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 4 12:44:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC38637B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 12:44:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA94995; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:44:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200103042044.VAA94995@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Ah! Source of ATA-alpha wierdness solved... In-Reply-To: from Matthew Jacob at "Mar 4, 2001 12:39:14 pm" To: mjacob@feral.com Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:44:15 +0100 (CET) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It seems Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Then doing an 'init' at the PROM hung, so I needed to power cycle. > *more sputter*... > > Would you consider this an 'alpha' problem? Or would it be reasonable > after doing the reset for dumping that a shutdown hook for resetting > completely would be reasonable? The ata driver does a reset of all ata/atapi device on boot, so there is not much more I can do here, the alpha BIOS should have reset/cleared the chip too shouldn't it ? -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message