Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:23:13 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: ultra5/cmd646 hang Message-ID: <200311210923.hAL9NEjH084444@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <xzp1xs2jdxc.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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It seems Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> writes: > > This all sounds screwed somehow, I've just upgraded my alpha to the > > latest -current and there the '646 works just fine as is... > > I've never been able to use ATA disks in my PWS600au... I haven't > tried with atang, but it seems to me that different systems with > apparently similar chips may actually be broken in entirely different > ways. Hmm, the only explanation I can give is that !x86 vendors take different liberties when they do their BIOS/firmware support for the ATA chips. It also seem that in some cases they dont even do the HW right :( -Søren
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