Yes, the jumpers will short lines together, and because CD interconnect
is NOT a bus, but instead only connects adjacent cards point to point,
it will heavily depend on what the neighbor boards happen to do with
those pins shortened by the continuity jumpers.
You may be lucky if no connection at all, or on at most one of the lines
in a jumpered pair is made from the neighbor: in this case, everything
will be fine. However, I would at least leave a big red sticker when
putting cards in such a way...
Andreas
Tony Duell wrote:
>
> >
> > ...you plug a quad-width board into a Q/CD slot, and the board has its grant
> > enable jumpers in place? Is there any chance that this would kill the board?
>
> AFAIK those grant jumpers just short a couple of pins together on the C/D
> part of the connector. So it appears to the rest of the bus as if there's
> a grant continuity card there.
>
> Putting them in on a card in a slot with CD interconnect will not damage
> that card, but it might damage other cards in the bus (if anything else
> is driving those pins -- maybe a card in the slot above or below -- then
> it might not like having them shorted to something else).
>
> -tony
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Andreas Freiherr
Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
http://www.vishay.com
Received on Fri May 31 2002 - 05:58:15 BST