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Date:      Sun, 4 Mar 2001 12:53:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ah! Source of ATA-alpha wierdness solved...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103041252110.40449-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103042044.VAA94995@freebsd.dk>

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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Soren Schmidt wrote:

> 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.

-matt



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