Re: Fwd: Protocol documentation updated

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:15:20PM +0000, Pete Bentley wrote:
> >wrote:
> >>I think there are a lot of subtleties, like the empty
> >>receive before sending commands, etc, that we have simply ignored so 
> >>far,
> >>at the potential cost of portability to (future) netmd hardware.
> >
> >Empty receive?
> >
> >Do you mean the 4 byte control transfer that returns 00 00 00 00
> >or 01 81 xx xx, or am I missing something else? I got the impression
> >from my logs that this was done *after* sending each command rather
> >than before, ie:-

I think I mean the 00000000.  But I am rather sketchy on the details.
What you described further seems to make sense.  I just want to verify that
what we are doing is what the device expects us to do.

Thanks,
Marcus


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