[LMH]Release 16 of the Nupi disk controller ROM

[Marc Holz]

Hi,

I looking for the Release 16 of the Nupi disk controller
PROM for the Explorer.  This is the release that allows standard SCSI
devices. Anyone out there who has a machine with the NUPI ctrl Rev ?

Best Regards,

Marc

> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 16:55:57 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Nyef <nyef@softhome.net>
> To: lispm-hackers@lists.unlambda.com
> Subject: Re: [LMH]SIB, Config ROMs, Fonts, Diagnostic Engine Code
>
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Nyef wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Nyef wrote:
> >
> > The ROMs are obviously mapped to address 0x000000 on the 68k, and there
> > appears to be RAM at 0x180000 for at least 4096 bytes (the
> initial stack
> > pointer in the interrupt vector table points to 0x181000).
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't have easy access to a 68k disassembler
> right now,
> > so I don't know too much more.
>
> Okay, I set up my Performa 400 again, kicked it into NetBSD, and used the
> binutils there to get me a disassembly. Then I started looking through it.
>
> This is harder than usual, partly because I don't have much in the way of
> documentation besides the CPU manuals and lroy-qdev.lisp, and partly
> because there are no text strings in the ROM at all. Anywhere.
>
> Anyway, I did find a couple things, but it's really slow going. I put my
> current disassembly file at
> http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/lispm/random_stuff/combined_nupi.dis68k.edited
>
> And there is a copy of Al Kossow's ROM and disk dumps at
> http://sc.am/~hametheif/lispm/ These (or other disk images) may come in
> handy at some point in the near future.
>
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