Subject: Re: siop vs. ncr
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/15/2000 09:21:31
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.

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