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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Followup: WD8013 card
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.205504.24467@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <C1FuJ7.4A9@rot.qc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 20:55:04 GMT
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- In article <C1FuJ7.4A9@rot.qc.ca> captain@rot.qc.ca (Andrew Webster) writes:
- >The WD8013 does seem to exhibit odd behaviour as the kernel only detects
- >the card from a cold boot / power up.
- >One person who responded mentioned this problem. It is wide spread?
- >Is there a fix?
-
- The problem is that a warm boot does not cause a card reset. This is
- arguably a defect in the card.
-
- The probe routine could be modified to forcibly reset the card; however, if
- this is done, what is the point of having a probe routine (since you must
- assume the card is present to reset it)?
-
- Th appropriate answer is a shutdown routine for drivers in each device
- driver... no one has hacked this into the device interface yet. This
- would also allow a spin-down of disks or "parking" the heads, if the
- shutdown took an argument.
-
- Happy hacking!
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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