On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:36:13PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:21:34PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:56:26PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > > >
> > > > IIRC a big problem is detecting slave only configurations.
> > >
> > > These are illegal according to the specification.  Who gives a damn
> > > if they work or not?
> > 
> > All the people who have them? Regardless of their legality, they happen.
> > And they happen in cases where we can't do much about it.
> 
> Nonsense.  All it ever takes to avoid this situation is *one jumper*,
> and usually not even that.
> 

And a correct cable, with all the devices connected to the right
places :-)

IIRC the master should be at the far end, and one of the signal
wires has to bypass the slave - or something equally ugly!

	David

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