On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 at 09:41:31, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>I tried to program some Eprom to replace the 2.91 with at least 3.01 SMSQ/E
>on my Q40... and so far I fail miserably.
>What's the magic process ? Am i missing a step ?
>
>I have a 'lrespr-able' rom file (configurated as I want).
>It works fine when lrespr-ed.
>I used wrom_bas to get the split of this file in two files (high and low words)
>then program the eprom.
>But they do not works: when I install them on the Q40, the screen is
>just random and nothing happen. (and yes, I checked the low/high
>placement:-)
>
>To check the process, I read the old 2.91 eprom, process them via rrom_bas.
>I get a nice file which menuconfig is happy with, finding config block.
>Alas, this file fails badly when lrespr-ised.
>
>Looking at the beginning of the two files (the 2.91 and my home 3.01),
>the 2.91 seems to start with a Q40 Hardware Initialisation module,
>where as in the 3.01 that module is after a SMSQ/E modules management module
>(or something that sound similar). Is this the reason for my failure ?
>(I just used the provided flp_bas program, must it be modified to
>produce the rom code ?)
>Does anybody succeed in making eprom for the Q40 with a recent version
>of SMSQ/E ? How did you do ? (hint and direction welcome)
>
>Any suggestion ?
I found I could program successfully for the Q40 very few of the
recovered eproms Peter Graf sent me - mainly ST.
The situation was so bad I got my programmer 'repaired' at a cost of
about �100. Omnipro found nothing particularly wrong with the
programmer. It certainly had always been programming the eproms
successfully - it was just that the eproms did not work in the Q40.
I then bought some brand new eproms - ST again I think - and all worked.
Try programming a known workable SMSQ/E (2.91) before embarking on the
new one to make sure the eproms are OK.
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