On 08/18/2016 03:39 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
This can mess up the whole scheme. I just gave up on the auto assignment of addresses, and wrote a script to configure the devices. This was a big help as I was often putting boards in and out of the system.> From: Paul Koning> A lot of Unibus/Qbus devices have "floating CSRs" which means they > don't have fixed address assignments. Instead, the correct address is > based on a set of rules, which puts devices in an ordered list and > assigns addresses in sequence. .. If you get the address wrong, the > system will see the device as the wrong type What about if you have a series of devices (A, B, C, D, E), assigned addresses in the correct order, and then you remove C from the system; will the software stop probing for more devices when it gets to C (ie. D and E, although still plugged in, will not be seen)?
(I went looking for the file and couldn't find it.) Jon
