Re: IIc + SmartPort behavior

[Robert Justice <rjustice@internode.on.net>]

I have had play with my smartport cf adapter connected to my recently
acquired iic+. There is some interesting behavior. It seems that with
up to 4 drives connected, they will all map ok. (i used p8 2.0.3 for
my tests) but when you go over that limit it seems to be a little
strange.

If i set my number of partitions to 3, then i get the internal disk,
plus the 3 external disks on the smartport cf adapter mapped ok and
usable.

If i set it to 4 partitions then i only see the internal disk plus
three of the external disks. The 4th is never mapped, and cannot be
accessed.

If i set it to 5 partitions, then i see the internal disk plus 4 of
the external disks. All 4 can be accessed ok.

and so on. (i only tested with the partitions set to 6 max)

I can see that all of the partitions are allocated sp bus id's, just
that the last one is never used once it has been initialised.

So it seems that for some reason the last partition is not mapped to a
slot and drive once you go over the limit of 4. This seems like a bug,
perhaps in the iic+ firmware.
It would be interesting Steven, to see if Cedric's spvhd behaves the
same on your iic+.