rbabel@babylon.UUCP (Ralph Babel) (09/08/90)
Amiga users, we need your help! We (a group of Amiga developers) would like to write a small diagnostic utility that is able to identify all expansion devices in an Amiga. This would be a very useful tool for service centers and for developers debugging and testing their soft- and hardware on someone else's machine, since you would be able to identify boards without having to take apart that Amiga. Since the list of manufacturer numbers is - for some unknown reason - not publicly accessible and the list of product numbers is maintained by the manufacturers, we are trying to find them out ourselves. Please uudecode the following executable and run this CLI-program on as many Amigas as possible! -------------------------- cut here -------------------------- begin 777 Boards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end -------------------------- cut here -------------------------- The output might, for example, look like this: $00E90000-$00E9FFFF: 2017/008 R D140 gvpat.device $00200000-$009FFFFF: 2017/009 M E740 Each line usually corresponds to one board in your system, but sometimes one board really behaves as several expansion devices (e.g. hard disk controller plus RAM expansion). The boards should be listed from the MPU slot to the leftmost Zorro-slot (at least under 1.2 and 1.3, not sure about 2.0), Some expansion-boards do not behave like Zorro devices and therefore might not show up in the list. The first column shows you the address-range of the board, the two numbers after that are the manufacturer and the product number. These might be followed by a letter. "M" means this is a RAM expansion, "R" is used for boards that can be equipped with a boot-ROM, so it's probably an autobooting hard disk controller or something similar. The two bytes after that are the "er_Type" and "er_Flags" field. If the program is able to find a boot-ROM or a driver for that board, it will tell you about its name. Complete this list with the names of the boards in your system and their respective manufacturers and mail it to: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel If you are able to match the entries in the list generated by above program with the boards in your system or if you have further information on this subject - even better! Thanks for your help, Ralph cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel