Re: PRSNT Signals

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

>>>>> "peter" == peter ross <peter.ross@imshq.ftech.co.uk> writes:
    peter> 2. According to the V2.1 specification, the PRSNT signals are used for two
    peter> purposes: to indicate the power requirements of the board; and to indicate
    peter> that there is a board present. Does this mean that the host computer would
    peter> attempt to configure the card in this slot, given that at least one of the
    peter> PRSNT signals was tied down? Would this cause a problem?

  As long as you didn't respond on the second slot to IDSEL#, I don't see how 
the host would be able to tell that there was nothing there. My reading is
that PRSNT is just for power and buffer management.

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