Re: Commodore D9090 help

From: Spiro Trikaliotis <ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 07:40:50 +0200
Message-ID: <20150616054050.GA4923@hermes.local.trikaliotis.net>
Hello,

* On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 05:29:37AM +0000 Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote:
> Hallo Jacob,
> 
> 
> > Any thoughts?
[...]

> The only thing that pops up in my mind is that the I/O coupled to the
> second CPU is bad. The second CPU waits for some results but doesn't
> get them back. The first CPU waits on the second one and therefore
> won't reply on requests of the user. 

The 8250 is know to cause this behaviour if the R/W head of the drive
is broken. In this case, there is no data from the disk, and the drive
waits forever.

The behaviour is similar to the "killer tracks" on the 1541, although
these have another, but similar reason.

The same can happen if the drive motor is broken, for example: Again,
no data comes in, and the drive waits forever.

Perhaps, the D9090 which comes from a similar time frame has the same
issue?

Regards,
Spiro.

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Spiro R. Trikaliotis
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