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From: junki@lut.fi (Juha Nurmela)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Followup: WD8013 card
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:15:03 GMT
References: <C1FuJ7.4A9@rot.qc.ca> <1993Jan26.205504.24467@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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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.
|> ...
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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