Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:57:30 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ah! Source of ATA-alpha wierdness solved... Message-ID: <200103042057.VAA98240@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103041252110.40449-100000@beppo.feral.com> from Matthew Jacob at "Mar 4, 2001 12:53:01 pm"
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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 ? > > One would think- boot 'reboot' is considered different than 'boot'. There's > some kind of low-level issue here. I'm not sure I parse that sentence correctly, but there is not much I can do from the driver if the device hasn't been setup correctly by the BIOS, be it soft of hard reset.. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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