Subject: Re: satalink(4): trouble detecting harddisk if booting "too fast"
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/27/2004 22:23:05
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 05:37:26PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Well, it appears that the controller's PHY really didn't detect the hard drive.
> The probe routine can't do anything as long as the link to the drive is down.
>
> I don't know if we can do something at the controller's level, but I'm not sure
> we can even send a reset to the drive when the link is down.
> If I remember properly, the PHY is supposed to automatically detect the link
> state, so we may not have any possible action here either.
I think the driver isn't patient enough.. I have the docs and a card, so
I'll take a look at it in the near future.
- Frank