Subject: Re: DE and hot-swap disk caddies
To: dalecki@evision-ventures.com (Martin Dalecki)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:39:53 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), andersen@codepoet.org,
        andre@linux-ide.org (Andre Hedrick), josh@stack.nl (Jos Hulzink),
        jw@pegasys.ws (jw schultz), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <3CA2CDA1.7090505@evision-ventures.com> from "Martin Dalecki" at Mar 28, 2002 09:00:33 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> Then there is this talking around about the "tristate of some" device.
> I'm really a bit sick of it. Becouse there is no such a state
> like a tri-state. We have just bus drivers on both ends.
> They are implemented usually as Schmidt triggers. They have three
> possible states on output: low voltage, high voltage, high resistance.

Which is one, two, three states -> tri-state.

Electronics terminology then abuses that to mean the high impedance state (not
high resistance please if we are going to be picky).

Alan
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