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From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Subject: Re: weird port status w/ sata_mv
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:22:28 -0400
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On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 02:59 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
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> 
> What does 0x4 in the SCR_STATUS register actually mean?  Is there
> something that can be initialized or reset to coax the port to a normal
> status/state?
> 
> 

Ok, so to answer my own question: according to
<http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0408/msg01454.html>, it
would appear that 0x4 means the PHY is in offline mode.  So the question
is, why is it offline, and what can be done to reset it?