[Soekris] Workaround for IDE hang after soft reset

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Oct 3 07:46:13 UTC 2007


In message <yq1fy0sy9fr.fsf at sermon.lab.mkp.net>, "Martin K. Petersen" writes:
>
>As many of you have noticed the net5501 IDE controller doesn't fancy
>coming back after a soft reset when it's been in DMA mode.

It's not just the IDE controller, it's also the network interfaces.

Soren just sent me a test-bios that seems to have fixed both of
these issues by using a bigger hammer for warm reset.

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