Well, actually it was by accident (strange how often this happens). After
reading the exchange between Tony and Thomas about the PIC having (or not
having) enough time between bytes I thought that if that was indeed the
problem perhaps using a faster clock would show it. So I just pulled out the
4MHz crystal I had been using and put in a 8MHz one instead. It worked!
"Great!" I said to myself thinking that the faster clock did the trick...
But SURPRISE! when I put the 4MHz crystal back in, it still worked. So the
problem seems to be related to the PIC's reset state rather than the speed
of it's clock or the capacity of the HW SPI to read contiguous bytes.

Tonight I'll try reseting the SPI after the PIC has "booted".

BOB AMMERMAN WROTE:
>Tobie:
>
>Whatever led you to try stopping the clock? I'm curious what your thinking
>was.
>
>Bob Ammerman
>RAm Systems
>(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
>software)

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