Subject: Re: Support for controllers without aux registers in MI wdc
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/14/2003 10:25:40
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hi,

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:41:47AM +0200, Ilpo Ruotsalainen wrote:

> Well, people who use these pieces of horror under AmigaOS say 'since it
> cannot be reset, if you get a bus hang you have to hard reboot' so I'm
> kinda inclined to trust them. Besides, this is *not* a true feature of
> the controller but a hack to add a feature it doesn't really have at the
> cost of losing the reset ability. (Without an IDE doubler the controller
> has aux registers and resets just fine.)

\begin[devil]{advocate}

Actually, this hardware hack should "work" on any old-style IDE controller,
and should be moved to a machine independent location.

\end{advocate}

Regards,
	-is

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