Ok, an examination of the comments in the ROM H listing suggests that the
Lisa 2/10 does look to see if the hard drive is connected and if not, then
boots from the floppy drive. As the machine still gives an error number 57
on the I/O board when the widget is unplugged but the floppy drive plugged
in, I deduce the fault is definitely is on the main I/O board somewhere.
With the widget unplugged then I took some readings on the floppy drive card
edge and compared those to the same on the working Lisa. There were some
differences. Compared to the working machine..
PH0 does not show a brief 5V pulse on start up
PH1 and PH2 remain at zero rather than pulsing briefly to 3.5 v or so every
4-5 seconds
HDS is static at zero rather than at 4.5v and dropping to zero every 4-5
seconds
DEN (ENBL) is 5v rather than zero
WRD is 5v rather than zero
PWM is 0 rather than 4v
The WRD and the PH lines come off the IWM chip (Integrated WOZ machine). I
found a few docs on this chip but I'll need to study them a little harder to
try to understand how they work. Checking out the IMW chip, a clock signal
is there and nothing on the input side is obviously amiss but then I would
not recognise it if it was. The data and address lines are a combination of
exotic looking waves. The same can be said of the data and address lines in
the 6504a disk controller chip itself although A8 (pin 13) seemed to be a
steady 3.8V rather than a wave.
I checked quite a few of the other 71xxxx chips. They appear to be doing
what they should on the straight signal. With a wave, it's hard to tell.
I'm wondering if it is the IMW IC. Does this seem a strong suspect? I
don't have a replacement for this unfortunately, but they are also in the
Apple IIGS apparently, so not that uncommon.
Terry