From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 13:20: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC4837B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:20:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (mailhost1-sfldmi.sfldmi.ameritech.net [206.141.193.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FF543FD7 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:20:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbailey27@ameritech.net) Received: from ameritech.net ([67.38.11.69]) by mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20030224212006.TSDN8853.mailhost.det2.ameritech.net@ameritech.net>; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:20:06 -0500 Message-ID: <3E5A8C56.4070909@ameritech.net> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:19:18 -0500 From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David@webedited.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hang after soft reboot. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >If the extra hacking was done, what would be wrong with that occurring at >the end of the reboot process, rather than the start of the boot process? > It probably wouldn't *hurt* anything, though, it wouldn't *do* anything, either. When power cycles the ATA will initialize to the native state. So, any assertion of pins prior to power cycle would be moot. Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message