On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:49 PM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
Here's a quandary that I've posted a few
places, with varying success. ?I have a CMD CQD-220TM SCSI board (QBUS MSCP SCSI, drive
and tape) which was working fine when I got it. ?It's now only partially functional
with a few odd symptoms on my 11/23+.
I'm honestly puzzled by this; it was working fine when I got it, and then I plugged
it in after a move and no dice. ?I'm still banging on it with IDA pro. ?I hope
it's not a busted PAL/GAL/PLA (of which there are about 20 on the board), because for
the most part there's no way of redoing any of those without spending weeks on the
assembly trying to figure out what they're supposed to do. ?The SCSI chip (a 53C90A)
is a socketed PLCC, and they're not impossible to find second-hand, so if it turns out
to be a problem there, I should be able to fix that by just throwing some money at it.
I haven't seen any behavior like that with any of the CQD-220/TM that
I have. What version of the firmware are you using? The latest image
I have is CQD-220/TM B3A.02 (F220Y1B3A, F220Y2B3A) 10/17/95. Swapping
in different EPROMs would be trivial to try, but might not be too
likely to change the behavior. The only PAL I have looked at is the
CSR decode PAL, which I reverse engineered to be able to convert
CQD-220/T and CQD-220/M versions into CQD-220/TM versions.
-Glen