Re: WDCTL_RST

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:11:32PM +0100, Ian Clark wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 16:59, Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > I updated the BIOS for an Asus Prime X370-PRO from version 3803 to 4012,
> 
> I did this a few days ago too....
> 
> > and now all of the real disks fail with "clearing WDCTL_RST failed".
> >
> Yes.. yes they do.
> 
> > The machine boots, because the M.2 "disk" is detected and works fine.
> >
> You're lucky, I have my root on SATA.
> 
> I was upgrading from 3404 to the latest, and was unable to persuade
> the bios file for 3404 to take to downgrade. (This was using the BIOS
> EzFlash).
> 
> However I have managed to downgrade to a version that works, I can't
> remember the exact version number, but there's 2 released within a few
> weeks of each other, it was one of those.
> 
> I'll look when I get home later on and follow up with the correct version.

I've been getting by with the patch at the bottom of PR 53524 which
simply avoids the reset - hacky kludge...

Thanks to your email, hunting for the PR number, I stumbled on PR 52372.
I'll have to try Jaromir's patch tonight!

Cheers,

Patrick