On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Richard Stover wrote:
> Since I've been working on a device driver to handle a high speed
> camera that will produce data at very high rates I've been looking at
> issues like this. If you have a peripheral that does follow the ECP
> standards you shouldn't have to loose any data. The way to stop data
> is to negotiate from reverse to forward phase (from input to output).
> When the host sets nReverseRequest (also called nInit high, the
> pheripheral must tri-state its data bus. If the peripheral was in the
> middle of a data transmission it must assume the data byte will be
> discarded by the host and it stops all furthter transfers. You can
> then read whatever is left in the fifo. nReverseRequest is bit 2 of
> the device control register.
Yes, that sounds like the answer.
Tim.
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