Interesting anomoly with a 2940UW

Justin T. Gibbs gibbs at plutotech.com
Tue Sep 9 06:36:44 PDT 1997


>Followed by a bunch more timeouts, then eventually a bus reset, then things 
>went back to normal.  I kind of liked seeing the qoutcnt = 17, that 
>shouldn't ever happen since I'm running with the spin lock.

Does your spin lock completely empty the FIFO before setting the sequencer
variable to 0?  It doesn't sound like it.  The 17 could simply be from
overflowing the QOUTFIFO as, although the documentation claims insertions
when full are a no-op, I'm not sure I believe it.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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