Re: Sider D4 contoller card by Xebec - repair help/info- any Sider Wizards out there?

[DocVlad@mail.yahoo.com (Vernon Bartlett)]

On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 13:04:01 +0100, Patrick Schaefer
<pa.schaefer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:


>BTW: If you can read or write sectors to/from the drive your interface
>card isn't faulty!
>
>This works with the old ROM, I don't have the 1986 version:
>* 0300:08 00 00 00 01 00 00 08   
>* ctrl-F
>* :03 00 00             <- load A with 03, Y with 00   
>* C71AG
>will read (08) one (01) sector starting from logical block 0 (0 00 00)
>into memory location $800 (00 08). If this works, your hardware is okay.


Well I can't really get any drive action now. The card reports that
the sider is not ready. Think I may have damaged one of the chips that
provides signal to drive ready status. As I said action is erratic.

I'm using the Prosel v 1.0 modification from 1989 by Glen Brendon for
the Rom.
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