On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:21:31AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:35:52PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
>  > Hum, ok so this board is based on a wide chip but only the narrow connector
>  > is used. Sure, with a wide disk the driver will negotiate wide transfers
>  > and try to use them; there's no fall-back mechanism (hum depending on how
>  > things are setup I'm not sure transfers will fail, they may just transfer
>  > incorrect data with highter bits all 0 or all 1). I'm not sure how to handle
>  > this; this is a quite unusual setup.
> 
> ...probably read the EEPROM on the card to see what's there.

Hum, will this work with all the controllers ?
Also it doesn't really solve the issues of wide ctrl/disk and narrow link.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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