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Type 0 and 8595 DBA ESDI Support (Yes, Virginia, it DOES work) ESDI Support for Convenience Partition? Type 0 Success in 8595-OH9 Type 0 Booting Experiences Type 0 Difficulties with 9595 (lack of planar ADFs?) Type 0 04G3884 FCC ID:
ANO38620C1A
90X8134 DMA Controller
(Also
used on K complexes) Supports (4) 85nS and 80nS 2MB SIMMs on the risers and 8MB on an expansion card. Supports Spock from one to three can version. Most likely the short Tribble as well. I had these -402 beasts. Converted them all to 486, no problems now. Just have to reload the IML on hard drive. Usually do a LLF first. The -402 will only accept 4x 2/85 (2MB 72pin simms FRU# 92F0104) = 8-mb on motherboard, 8-mb more on an expansion card. Bootable refdisk for that 90386 is only available by backing up. Keep a copy before you switch, may be useful someday <g>. Type 0 and 8590 Planar DBA ESDI Support Update fron ! Confessions of a Model 90 386 (update) I took down my Model 90s today and booted them
up. I started up the old 402 and got another itch to try to do
something with those ESDI ports. I experimented back in early
2006 with this (I went and found my old posts here before trying again,
to make sure I wasn't repeating mistakes of the past). :)
However, this time I found out something that partially disproves
something I had revealed here back then. My original post read: 8590-402 reveals more secrets... Q: Is ESDI bootable on a Type-0 Processor Complex? The answer is not incorrect, but it is *incomplete*. The
correct answer is Yes AND No actually. ESDI will boot with the T0
I found today. The catch is that it just cannot be the IML drive.
What I did before was remove the Spock adapter and therefore
removed the original 160MB SCSI disk that came with the system (which
was the IML disk as well). However if the SCSI adapter/disk is
NOT removed, the ESDI drive works just fine, and actually will preempt
the SCSI disk in the I can see how this would have helped upgrades from Model 70s
(which I've read postulated elsewhere is a major reason for the Model
90s). A administrator could simply remove the hard disk from a
production Model 70 and just stick it in a new Model 90 and turn it
on...presto, the system boots up with the ESDI disk as C:, and the fast
SCSI disk sets waiting as D: drive. Neat. So a correction 4 years in the making is... A: Yes: ESDI disk will boot as long as another IML-capable disk is installed on the system. IML Error I9990080 (IML not supported on primary disk drive) will occur if only the ESDI disk is installed. ESDI Support for Convenience Partition? Tim Clarke opines: So, in theory, you could IML from the RefDisk and then boot to an ESDI-only system via the "Start Operating System" option from it's menu, I'd guess. Also, have you considered that the Type-0 complex might have "Convenience Partition" support in its ROM(s), if IBM were experimenting with the IML support for non-SCSI drives at that time? If you ensure that there are no more than 3 partition entries in the master partition table and a good 4MB of space available on the ESDI drive, you could then try the "Create System Partition" option on an ESDI-only setup? The Convenience Partition's type byte is 0x3F, IIRC. Type 0 Success in 8595-OH9 The Type 0 will work in an 8595-0H9, with some patience. First putting in a spare T0 would result in no video. Taking other T0 out of working -402 and placing it into -0H9 worked. After video was achieved with this T0, swapping back the previously non-working T0 would work also. Do some T0's have more "kick" to them? They some are leaders, some are followers. Working -0H9 configuration was stock, except for the changing memory from 70ns nonparity to 80ns parity (Model 70 386 memory). -0H9 had "newest" SCSI w/Cache. -402 had older SCSI w/Cache but made no difference. Type 0 Booting Experiences I got it to work in another 8590-0H9. The weird thing (and telling) was this: Two machines: 8590-402: Stock T0 complex. 8590-0H9: Stock T2 complex. I have a second T0 complex (I had before getting the 402), here-after referred to as T0-2. T0-2 would not work initially if swapped with the original T0 in the 402. No video. I then flipped the password-reset jumper on the planar. Put T0-2 back in, and it worked. Great, now I know the complex works. I just got the 0H9. It came with a T2 complex. I checked the planar, same FRU as the one in the 402. So I swapped the memory for some 80ns parity memory (2x2MB). Went ahead and flipped the password-reset jumper. Powered up, no video, nothing. I was stumped. So then I took the T0 in the 402 and put it in the 0H9. Viola, it worked. Okay, what's going on? I put T0-2 back in AND IT ALSO WORKED, although it wouldn't just minutes earlier. So I had two functional T0 machines functioning. I seemed to finally have the recipe for success. The recipe is: One 8590 with Spock SCSI. Put at least 1 PAIR of 80ns Parity SIMMs in (Model 70 386 Memory). Flip the password-reset jumper. Cross your fingers and push the power switch. Type 0 Difficulties in 9595 Daniel Hamilton's story with 9595s... On the Model 95 XP (0MG), the T0 seems to not be able to access IML via the floppy controller. You'll always get I99900x1 or I99900x2 errors. I took the 160MB SCSI drive from the 402 and put it in the 9595. It then came back with a I999003x error, Disk IML record incompatible with system board. Someone mentioned the planar ADF is missing and could be causing the problem. I need to investigate this further. I finally ended up with I9990033 errors. |
