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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.

The probe routine could be modified to forcibly reset the card; however, if
this is done, what is the point of having a probe routine (since you must
assume the card is present to reset it)?

Th appropriate answer is a shutdown routine for drivers in each device
driver... no one has hacked this into the device interface yet.  This
would also allow a spin-down of disks or "parking" the heads, if the
shutdown took an argument.

Happy hacking!


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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