7 Nov
2019
7 Nov
'19
4:04 p.m.
I have one of these, it has 2 jumper blocks, JPR2 (4 3 pin jumper
'settings'... looks to probably latch each of the 4 high or low) and
JPR3 (12 on/off jumper positions).
It also has a JPR1 which would be a 3 pin header and it is strapped by
wire to position 1-2.
Would love to figure out how the IO port and IRQs are configured. Card
has no BIOS, so unlike a WD1002A-FOX there won't likely be any jumpers
to set drive type. (I'm not having much luck with that card in a Tandy
2500 SX... but that's a completely different issue).
Hopefully someone has or knows where there are some docs on the jumper
settings.
I'd imagine I could figure out some by probing which ISA pins various
jumpers connect to..... but any jumper settings that control chips for
decoding logic will be far more difficult to determine.
Thanks,
-- Curt
9 Nov
9 Nov
11:07 a.m.
On 11/7/19 4:04 PM, rescue via cctalk wrote:
I have one of these, it has 2 jumper blocks, JPR2 (4 3 pin jumper
'settings'... looks to probably latch each of the 4 high or low) and
JPR3 (12 on/off jumper positions).
It also has a JPR1 which would be a 3 pin header and it is strapped by
Given the age of this thing (ca 1983), it's doubtful that it uses the
same register mapping that the PC AT uses.
A photo might help to pin things down further.
--chuck
2:57 p.m.
On 11/7/19 4:04 PM, rescue via cctalk wrote:
I have one of these, it has 2 jumper blocks, JPR2 (4 3
pin jumper
'settings'... looks to probably latch each of the 4 high or low) and
JPR3 (12 on/off jumper positions).
It also has a JPR1 which would be a 3 pin header and it is strapped by
Tecmar made a PC floppy controller that also supported 8" MFM.
There were jumpers for that, including the 500K data transfer rate.
Tecmar's 8" MFM format was not the same as the IBM 1.2M, nor the same as
"Vista" nor "Maynard".
I don't remember the cabling. It may have had a 50 pin dual row header,
rather than cabling the 8" from the DC37
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
5:54 p.m.
On 2019-11-09 6:57 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On 11/7/19 4:04 PM, rescue via cctalk wrote:
I have manuals for the Tecmar PC-Mate Floppy 5/8 and also the SASI
adapter that was part of the PC-Mate system.? Not sure if this is the
same Tecmar floppy adapter it is a full length 8 bit ISA card with a 50
pin connector at the rear of the card and two 34 pin edge connectors at
the top near the back for 5.25 drives. The floppy controller chip on it
is a UPD 765.
There is also a manual for the Xebec S1410 SASI to ST-406 controller.
Paul.
I have one of these, it has 2 jumper blocks, JPR2
(4 3 pin jumper
'settings'... looks to probably latch each of the 4 high or low) and
JPR3 (12 on/off jumper positions).
It also has a JPR1 which would be a 3 pin header and it is strapped by
Tecmar made a PC floppy controller that also supported 8" MFM.
There were jumpers for that, including the 500K data transfer rate.
Tecmar's 8" MFM format was not the same as the IBM 1.2M, nor the same
as "Vista" nor "Maynard".
I don't remember the cabling.? It may have had a 50 pin dual row
header, rather than cabling the 8" from the DC37
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred???????????? cisin at xenosoft.com
11 Nov
11 Nov
8:26 p.m.
On 2019-11-07 19:04, rescue wrote:
I have one of these, it has 2 jumper blocks, JPR2 (4 3
pin jumper
'settings'... looks to probably latch each of the 4 high or low) and
JPR3 (12 on/off jumper positions).
It also has a JPR1 which would be a 3 pin header and it is strapped
by wire to position 1-2.
Would love to figure out how the IO port and IRQs are configured.
Card has no BIOS, so unlike a WD1002A-FOX there won't likely be any
jumpers to set drive type. (I'm not having much luck with that card
in a Tandy 2500 SX... but that's a completely different issue).
Hopefully someone has or knows where there are some docs on the
jumper settings.
I'd imagine I could figure out some by probing which ISA pins various
jumpers connect to..... but any jumper settings that control chips
for
decoding logic will be far more difficult to determine.
Thanks,
-- Curt
I spent an hour or more tracking traces/etc on the PCB. I believe I
have fully figured out the settings.
Here they are for anyone ever needing them.
The card is a Tecmar PC 500K/1MEG FLOPPY CONTROLLER 941393 REV A
It also has a paper sticker on it that says WANGTEK 24128-001
Here is what I figured out:
JPR3 is a 12 position header, jumper pairs are 1+13, 2+14, 3+15, 4+16,
..., 12+24
1+13 DRQ1
2+14 DRQ2
3+15 DRQ3
4+16 DACK1
5+16 DACK2
6+17 DACK3
7+19 IRQ9
8+20 IRQ3
9+21 IRQ4
10+22 IRQ5
11+23 IRQ6
12+24 IRQ7
Clearly, the DRQ and DACK #s should be set identical, so 1+13 and 4+16
for DMA1, etc...
JPR2 sets the I/O port address, there is no numbering to these pins.
There are 3 rows of pins. The upper row is ground, the bottom row is
+5V
and you jumper the middle row to U (up, ground), or D (down, +5V)
UUUU 300
UUUD 310
UUDU 320
UUDD 330
UDUU 340
UDUD 350
UDDU 360
UDDD 370
DUUU 380
DUUD 390
DUDU 3A0
DUDD 3B0
DDUU 3C0
DDUD 3D0
DDDU 3E0
DDDD 3F0
3F0 is standard PC primary floppy controller, 370 is for the secondary
floppy controller.
I believe my card was set wrong, as there was no jumper for the first
triple of JPR2, leaving the comparator inputs that compare to SA7 on the
ISA bus indeterminate.
I'll now be seeing if I can get this operating as a secondary floppy
controller.
No guarantees any of this is right, but I worked out some of the
connections. The IRQ and DMA stuff was easy. The port addressing was
determined mostly via a 74LS688N
so I had to track down the P0-7 and Q-07 inputs and determine what I/O
port address the corresponding JPR2 jumpers were setting.
Oddly, SA0 through SA9 have fingers on the card. So, not sure if this
thing would respond to multiple addresses based on the settings of
SA10-SA19. This is where my ignorance of the ISA bus and PC
architecture leave me scratching my head, but regardless, I think the
above settings are correct.
-- Curt
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