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POWER MANAGEMENT
Power management capabilities are provided for the following logical devices: floppy disk, UART 1,
UART 2 and the parallel port. For each logical device, two types of power management are provided:
direct powerdown and auto powerdown.
FDC Power Management
Direct power management is controlled by CR22. Refer to CR22 for more information.
Auto Power Management is enabled by CR23-B0. When set, this bit allows FDC to enter powerdown
when all of the following conditions have been met:
1.
2.
The motor enable pins of register 3F2H are inactive (zero).
The part must be idle; MSR=80H and INT = 0 (INT may be high even if MSR = 80H due to polling
interrupts).
The head unload timer must have expired.
The Auto powerdown timer (10msec) must have timed out.
3.
4.
An internal timer is initiated as soon as the auto powerdown command is enabled. The part is then
powered down when all the conditions are met.
Disabling the auto powerdown mode cancels the timer and holds the FDC block out of auto
powerdown.
DSR From Powerdown
If DSR powerdown is used when the part is in auto powerdown, the DSR powerdown will override the
auto powerdown. However, when the part is awakened from DSR powerdown, the auto powerdown
will once again become effective.
Wake Up From Auto Powerdown
If the part enters the powerdown state through the auto powerdown mode, then the part can be
awakened by reset or by appropriate access to certain registers.
If a hardware or software reset is used then the part will go through the normal reset sequence. If the
access is through the selected registers, then the FDC resumes operation as though it was never in
powerdown. Besides activating the PCI_RESET# pin or one of the software reset bits in the DOR or
DSR, the following register accesses will wake up the part:
1.
Enabling any one of the motor enable bits in the DOR register (reading the DOR does not awaken
the part).
A read from the MSR register.
A read or write to the Data register.
2.
3.
Once awake, the FDC will reinitiate the auto powerdown timer for 10 ms. The part will powerdown
again when all the powerdown conditions are satisfied.