On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:04:06AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > Note that the CMD0646 is a cheap but weird chip. Especially it can't use
> > both channels at the same time, access has to be serailised (that's because
> > some internal registers are shared between the 2 channels).
> 
> I was under the impression that only the 640 had that problem. Shouldn't
> the later chips be ok?

Never tried, but from the docs I fear it's not. I even have a web page
explaining how to serialise access to the channels when using DMA.
Maybe it's ok for PIO, but do you want to use parralel PIO or serialised DMA 
accesses ?

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