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The transport docs are supposed to show the mapping of data words to
registers, FIS fields, or whatever.
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Subject: [t13] ata8-acs: Word orderining within a multi-word field
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A question has come up that needs to be ironed out at the dec. meeting.
For a multi-word command field (e.g. LBA): words 2-4
a) what is the order of the words within the field
b) how are the individual words mapped to the bits ?
answer 1:
word 02 word 03 word 04
+----------------+------------------+---------------+
| | |
|
| | |
|
+----------------+------------------+---------------+
15 0 23 16 47 24
answer 2:
word 02 word 03 word 04
+----------------+------------------+---------------+
| | |
|
| | |
|
+----------------+------------------+---------------+
47 24 23 16 15 0
answer 3:
word 04 word 03 word 02
+----------------+------------------+---------------+
| | |
|
| | |
|
+----------------+------------------+---------------+
47 24 23 16 15 0
or any number of other variations.....
Any suggestions or preferences ?
Thank You !!!
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