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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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