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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Followup: WD8013 card
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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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