Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 23:45:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>, tom@uniserve.com, dnelson@emsphone.com, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? Message-ID: <199810040645.XAA02279@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Oct 1998 22:16:11 CDT." <19981003221611.A17488@Denninger.Net>
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> For 1542s you can shut off the BIOS entirely and thus not get a POST reset > (There is no post in that case). > > I am unaware of a way to do this for PCI adapters. The same - don't have a BIOS (eg. NCR53c810). > I understand the need for *ONE* SCSI reset as part of the boot sequence. > But I fail to understand why we have to send one if the adapter is of a type > where you *must* have already sent one (ie: AHA2940) No guarantee that nothing has been done to peripherals between the reset and when you take over. No way to know in any given case whether there has been a reset at all (eg. embedded aic7xxx possibly with disabled BIOS). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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