One more 2300 healthy (rats?)

Justin T. Gibbs gibbs at narnia.plutotech.com
Tue Sep 22 09:45:10 PDT 1998


> Now, the next real question is, if you go ahead and power that system down,
> unplug the cord, discharge the capacitors in the power supply, clear the
> NVRAM, and do everything else you cna imagine to make that system go back to
> original, will the pre10 boot up without first booting the FreeBSD-CAM
> floppy?  If so, then I'm stumped and amazed.  To the best of my knowledge,
> everything the FreeBSD ahc cam driver sets and everything the linux aic7xxx
> driver set are *all* volatile registers and locations in the sense that they
> go away with a power down.  So, if the machine is "fixed" so to speak now
> and no longer needs pre-booted after a power down to get pre10 to work, then
> something weird is going on.  Any clues what it might be in that case
> Justin?

The FreeBSD driver doesn't touch any non-volatile storage.

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Justin

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