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- From: junki@lut.fi (Juha Nurmela)
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- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Followup: WD8013 card
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:15:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.205504.24467@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- |> 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.
- |> ...
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- Is there a reason for not using outb(0x64, 0xfe) in reboot ?
- To my knowledge, this pulses the reset-line on the whole system
- and everything resets to a known state (hopefully).
- The 0x64 is on the keyboard chip ?
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