Subject: Re: sdXX matching wrong
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 04/11/2000 00:15:16
According to Simon Burge:
>
>Just to throw a spanner in the works (you did say "normally" - here's
>an exception!), the DECstation 2100 and 3100 can quite happily use ID
>7 because for some unknown reason DEC chose ID 6 for the host.  Go
>figure...
>

Urrrg which means you could have a device that has a higher priority
than the controller?  I dunno how the devices 8->15 are priority wise
on a wide controller but with a narrow bus the highest numbered id
wins in an arbitration phase.


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