[Soekris] Workaround for IDE hang after soft reset
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Oct 3 13:29:42 UTC 2007
In message <200710031256.l93CuEGg008475 at lava.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writes:
>At 03:46 AM 10/3/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>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.
>
>Is this the same underlying reason why typing=20
>"reboot" from the loader prompt of a RELENG_6=20
>image will not reboot the box ? (I even tried=20
>turning off DMA, but not sure if its really being turned off at this point)
Yes.
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