Hello John, no, there is no reading at all, when trying to boot from the floppy over the 8086 monitor. This is the output i get:
*8086-80386 Active80286 Monitor V10.32 (7/19/2014) Stack pointer = D000:FFFC>CBooting MS-DOS from 5" Floppy DiskInitilizing 8259A PIC (Port 20H, Ints 0 & 1 only)No VGA ROM at C000:0000HZFDC Board Initilize OKFloppy Sector Read Error. Error returned = 3DHBoot sector read on floppy drive failed.IBM PC BIOS InitilizingInitilizing 8259A PIC (Port 20H, Ints 0 & 1 only)No VGA ROM at C000:0000HIBM-PC BIOS Test Menu. (Debug Flag = OFF)A=Timer Test B=Propeller/LAVA/VGA C=MS-DOS Boot (Floppy)D=Toggle Debug Flag E=Key Press Test F=Consol Out TestG=Keyboard Buffer Test H=INT 10H CMDs I=Print Screen TestJ=RAM Byte READ Test K=RAM Word READ Test L=RAM Byte WRITE TestM=RAM Word WRITE Test O=Out to Serial Port P=MS-DOS Boot (HDISK)Q=CHS Hex Display Test S=5" Floppy Sec RD Test T=3" Floppy Sec RD TestU=HDisk Sec RD Test W=HDisk Sector R/W Test Y=Floppy Boot Sec InfoZ=Hard Disk MBR Info (ESC) Back to Main Menu>* The HEX display on the ZFDC controller shows "EEE13" at least. I take a closer look at my I/O ports. Are these are normal? *>UInput Ports, 0-0FFFFH Ports. (16 Bit Port DX->AX and DX->AL)0000->00FF ->00 0001->C575 ->75 0002->C5FF ->C5 0003->FF00 ->00000F->21FF ->FF 0010->21FF ->21 0011->FF7E ->7E 001F->01FF ->FF0020->01FF ->00 003F->CAFF ->FF 0040->D2FF ->44 0063->00FF ->FF0064->00FF ->00 00EF->FFFB ->FB 00FF->00FF ->FFContinue ? (Y/N).* *Frank* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
