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From: danny@itm.uucp (Danny)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: How Do I Reset Peripherals?
Message-ID: <1990May1.202929.5146@itm.uucp>
Date: 1 May 90 20:29:29 GMT
Reply-To: danny@itm.UUCP (Danny)
Organization: In Touch Ministries, Atlanta, GA
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Greetings!

    We have a couple of Mylex 33MHz 386s running Interactive's
UN*X.  Occasionally, the console will hang in a strange state,
graphics or somesuch.  I'd really like to reset it from elsewhere,
y'know?  I hate to re-boot all the time.  The console is a Relisys
RE5154E EGA color, and the card is an AutoEGA from STB Systems.

    Also, we've a Western Digital WD8003E Ethercard Plus that also
sometimes hangs.  I'd like to be able to software reset that, too.
I've tried the sequence:
        fd = open ("/dev/wd", O_RDWR);
        ioctl (fd, LDRESET, (char *) 0);
only to have ioctl return "Invalid argument".  I suppose it really
wants some sort of parameter, but I've no idea what.  LDRESET is
only mentioned in passing in llc(7) of the "386/ix TCP/IP Guide".
wd(7) doesn't mention board-level reset at all.

    Help!
    
                                                    Danny
-- 
				Daniel S. Cox
				(seismo!gatech!itm!danny)