Hi John,

 
  
>> Roger, before you give up let me take another try.
>> I need to know in detail however your setup.

OK .... it will take me a little time to re-create my attempts to get V3 
working, but I can give you a little info. about what I was doing before I 
pulled the cards out.  CompuPro backplane, with CompuPro CPU-Z80 (running at 4 
MHz).  The CPU-Z80 has provision for two on-board EPROMs, and I'm using (for 
now) two 2716s burned with a simple monitor that lets me look at memory, change 
memory, jump to a given address, download code, etc.  I'm using a 64k static 
RAM card (Digital Research Computers) based on the 6116 SRAM.  And there is a 
N8VEM serial card in there too.  I believe it is configured to run at port 
addresses 0Axh (but I need to check that).

  
 
>> Did you say you also have tried V1 & V2 boards,

Yes, believe it or not, I came closest to getting things to work with the V1 
card. I got the single CF MYIDE code running, and it seems to behave normally, 
at least for reading the CF card.  There is some kind of an issue with sector 
numbering (what it displays as the "first" sector is really (I think) the 
second sector), but as I remember it, there was a discussion about that.  That 
MYIDE jumps the sector numbering by 1 to take care of CP/M sector numbering?

My attempts with V2 were a total bust.


>> You say you cannot write to the 8255. What about configuration writes?

Well, that's interesting.  I *thought* that I was sending the correct 
configuration codes (80h for reads and 92h for write to port A?) to the control 
port.  BUT, what if that is not working, and the 8255 comes up in some sort of 
read configuration?  Then I could read OK, but writes would not work.  That's 
what I'm seeing.

 >> Check by setting port A or B up as simple input ports.

OK, give me some time to set this up again, and verify that's what is happening.

Roger

 
  
 
 


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