Re: IEEE-488 adapter for 1541

From: Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 22:21:04 +0200
Message-ID: <CAESs-_x9HOBSF2B6q88E-GodJN7yXQ4dU7ktU_HL9Sq1TTefaw_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 9:56 PM Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se> wrote:
>
> Den Sat, 6 Apr 2019 17:37:27 +0200 skrev Francesco Messineo
> <francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com>:

>
> Isn't the 1541C like a 1541 but with a track 0 sensor and changed ROM
> to use that sensor? My impression were that this still used two 8kbyte
> ROMs.

Nope, I have all the versions and often repair them for other people.
the only drives that have 2 x 8K ROMs are the long board and short board 1541.
Schematic is available on zimmers.net if you like to check yourself.
It's called 1541B.

> IIRC the track 0 sensor interferes with the I/O ports required for the
> IEEE-488 port. The linked description probably takes care of this, but
> I'd advice to check what parts of the ROM does the track 0 check. If it
> isn't in the same ROM as the IEEE/IEC code, then both ROMs needs to be
> switched instead of only one of them.

Not all the 1541C have a track-0 sensor, and anyway it's connected to
PA0 of th 6522 that is a data line for IEEE-488, but since you need to
add switches for port-B pins that have other functions in the IEC
drive, you just add another logic (or analog, like CBM engineers would
have done) on PA0 pin.


>
> While 1541-II is the new style case drive which indeed uses one 16kbyte
> 27128.
Yes, of course those use a single ROM too.

Frank IZ8DWF
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