Andy Walls wrote: > The PCI bus uses "reflected wave swithcing", which means that one > bad/dusty/oxidized PCI board connection can affect the other boards.
Yikes - I never realized that, but then I never really thought about it, either. Wouldn't that also mean that a lot of issues become dependent on how many slots there are and how many slots are populated, etc? In other words, plugging more cards in might make a system flakier - or more stable, same for moving a card from one slot to another. (And that's not just moving it to another IRQ.) Dale (In a past life, I was a Rambus licensee, speaking of signal propagation. I specifically did voltage reference and regulation, temperature sensor, and CAD tools. But I was aware of the rest of the design, and particularly marveled at the I/O and DLL designs. Now that I write it, the I/O and DLL simply ARE the crux of Rambus, along with a protocol to make it all work together, and a few bits and pieces. The array was our design that we were bolting on.) _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
