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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

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