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From article <43urba$7rm@panix.com>, by fishman@panix.com (Harvey Fishman):
> In <43t2is$b3@nexus.uiowa.edu> bonak@herky.cs.uiowa.edu () says
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Does anyone know how I can reset a Adaptec AVA 1515 SCSI card? Right
>> now I have to power cycle my machine to get it to totally reset,
>> booting or reseting my machine doesn't seem to do the trick.
>
> I suspect that you are stuck.  I have noticed this as a general failing
> with Adaptec host adapters; they will not reset except on power cycling
> unless the BIOS is enabled.  I found that out when working with multiple
> host adapters in a single box.  In this case the BIOS is usually disabled
> in all but the first host adapter used for the boot device.  Since I do
> not believe that that AVA-1515 has a BIOS, I think that you are SOL.

Argh! I was afraid of that answer. Shouldn't there be a way with
software to reset/clear the state of the card by writing some command
to a register? I just got the card a few days back as part of a CD ROM
purchase and I don't want to buy another one.

This card has a BIOS, but it's diabled because otherwise the system
tries to boot of it rather than my two IDE drives.

By the way, I sent ADAPTEC (support@adaptec.com) a message and after a
few days waiting for a response all I got was "we don't support Linux"
-- duh!  It's really not a Linux problem at all, but a problem that
the card doesn't reset itself when the system is booted/reset. This
really seems to me a design error.

Anyone else out there have any suggestions? 


Esmail

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Esmail Bonakdarian (esmail@uiowa.edu)
Department of Computer Science
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~bonak