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Subject: Re: First byte of LT245R eeprom

From: Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:17:28 +0800
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Anders Larsen <al@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Bit 3 might be DRIVER_VCP, although libftdi does not touch it for TYPE_R.

Could be. I have an FT232R based USB to Serial Converter
and it loads VCP driver by default. The first byte is 0x00.

> When experimenting with an FT245R I found that bit 0 is the culprit - when
> cleared, an FT245R is turned into an FT232R (or so it seems).
> If you turn the bit back on, the functionality of the FT245R is restored.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no way (that I know of) to detect if a chip is
> really an FT232R or an FT245R other than checking bit 0 of byte 0.

This is in line with my first byte read of the FT232R chip (bit 0 of
byte 0 is 0).


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