Re: WDCTL_RST

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> writes:

> 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

I just sent in kern/53672 which probably is the same issue.  I just
ended up using the existing quirk that avoids the reset.  It appears to
work fine for me, but I do not know what the actual problem really is.

I missed 53524 and it seems to be the same product ID I have.





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