Shawn,

>         The Master controller is using the designated I2C SDA & SCL pins on PORTC.
> This is used to access the EEPROM. The Slave controller however, cannot use
> the designated pins because my current design calls for it to drive a
> MAX7221 chip with its SPI.

So the Slave PIC has two things that need to run on the SSP.  That's
the basic problem.  You either have to bit-bang one of them, or
change the design.

Whats a 7221?  Is there an I2C equivalent to use instead, so you
could go to all I2C?

Could you just change everything to SPI?  I know there are SPI
EEPROMs around.

I don't know much about SPI, but I think you just bus the data and
clock lines to all the chips, and the master has to drive the chip
selects to each slave.

So that's 3 chip selects, plus the clock and data.

------------
Barry King, KA1NLH
NRG Systems "Measuring the Wind's Energy"
http://www.nrgsystems.com
Check out the accumulated (PIC) wisdom of the ages at:
PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.org
------- End of forwarded message -------