Some time ago there was a discussion about the elusive 98228A ROM that
supports both the 9885 and 9895 diskette drive units on a 9825T, well
good news! A fellow MoHPC member David Ramsey very kindly loaned me
his, and with a little careful reading of the service manual along with
studying Tony Duell's schematic I got a good idea of how it work, and
observing the memory bus using a logic analyzer confirmed how it
worked. I was able to dump the ROM using GPIO cards in a 9920 to
simulate the memory bus, I actually went on and dumped all the ROMs in
the 9825T as well as a couple other I had. I have successfully created
a clone of the ROM and have even fit it into a a ROM shell. I am going
to try creating a PCB for it too, what I have now is just hand wired,
but it works. In the end the ROM module did not turn out to be very
complicated. I am just in the process of documenting my project and
will release a package soon with full documentation and most importantly
the ROM image. I plan to donate my package along with all of my ROM
images to
hpmuseum.net.
Paul.