Return to BSD News archive
Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA152 ; Thu, 28 Jan 93 23:02:26 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!news.funet.fi!news.lut.fi!junki From: junki@lut.fi (Juha Nurmela) Subject: Re: [386BSD] Followup: WD8013 card Sender: news@lut.fi (Usenet News) Message-ID: <C1J494.Fxo@lut.fi> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:15:03 GMT References: <C1FuJ7.4A9@rot.qc.ca> <1993Jan26.205504.24467@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: anakonda.cc.lut.fi Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland Lines: 19 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. |> ... 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 ? -- juha nurmela, Adr. 54430 Hujakkala, Finland. Tel. 953 78022 eiku: skinnarilank. 28d10, Tel. 953 26292