RE: D9090 ROM images uploaded to ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/incoming/firmware

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 1999-10-07 05:57:59

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, [ISO-8859-1] Marko Mäkelä wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> 
> > > I uploaded the ROMs, along with the technical reference manual (scanned) to
> > > ftp://ftp.zimmers.net/temp/
> > 
> > Cool. Saves me the scanning.  I'll check my various versions against what
> > you've got there.
> 
> The manual is now also available at
> http://www.funet.fi/pub/cbm/schematics/drives/old/9090/.  I did a quick
> scan for strings in the firmware and didn't find much: only "blocks free."
> in 300516-001.  Your 2k chip dump (the one that was not $ff) was identical
> with the one on Bo's site.


300515-001 differs from 300515-002 by more than the first byte.  As you go
through the code, other bytes are inserted in the -002 version.  By the
time you get to the end of the code, there is about a 20 byte offset.
There is also additional code at the end of the -002 version.  The -002
version is obviously a patched version of 300515-001.

The 8280 2K ROM is nothing like these ROMs although they are all DOS 3.0
This suggests that that 8280 ROM image is not good.

300516-001 appears to be C000-DFFF.

300517-001 appears to be garbled.  The manual says that the drive should
produce a power-on message and also the usual Commodore DOS error
messages.  They should be in this ROM.  Also, it makes no sense when
disassembled.




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