Hi Ondrej, Ondrej Zary wrote: > Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > As I understand it, an IDE hard drive can be reset in three ways. A > > power-on reset, a hard reset caused by pin 1 (RESET-) on the IDE > > connector, and a soft reset (bit SRST in the device control > > register). RESET- is held low on a power on, but can also be used > > later to do a hard reset. > > The RESET pin is often wired to the system RESET signal, so there is > no way to control it separately.
Yes, I think you're correct. I found a south bridge spec., http://www.tser.org/vt8231/vt8231.pdf, and I don't see a pin for driving an IDE RESET-. Oh well, I suppose I either dike out RESET- from the IDE cable and wire it up to a serial or parallel port, or give up using a PC for the task and use a dedicated circuit. Thanks for your help. Ralph. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
