Followup on 274xT Adaptec

Justin T. Gibbs gibbs at plutotech.com
Tue Sep 9 20:13:35 PDT 1997


>Justing, according the the books on these chipsets, what exact conditions 
>can cause the settings of SIMODE0 and 1 to get changed, and does it matter 
>if we set the conditions prior to enabling the bus drivers?  Could the fact 
>that we are doing the outb(ENABLE, p->base + BCTL); after we set the SIMODE? 
>registers be causing the B channel settings not to take?

It shouldn't make a difference.

>Also, I wonder how 
>a completely absent cable and termination would effect how the card handles 
>these things.

You should still get selection timeouts.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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