• Re: US5446869 Configuration and RAM/ROM control of PCI extension card r

    From Ryan Alswede@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 13 08:15:24 2023
    Louis I've been trying for the past week to get the 8F62 card to tell me it's PCI vendor and device IDs using that flow chart doc and QB. The card says nothing back...

    It should respond bytes from those locations with something like 0x10, 0x22 and 0x20 0x00

    1022 : 2000 is the vendor and card ID for the PCnet chipset. Same as the sister card IBM Phoenix PCI AIX PCnet card.

    TABLE II
    BYTE(S) DESCRIPTION ACCESS TYPE
    0-1 Vendor Identification Read Only
    2-3 Device Identification Read Only

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Fri Oct 13 09:59:49 2023
    Ryan, I place NO faith in any IBM documentation as being %100 correct.
    BUT... this patent description might be useful. I can HTML-ize it.

    A map of the PCI configuration data space is shown in Table II:

    TABLE II
    BYTE(S) DESCRIPTION ACCESS TYPE
    0-1 Vendor Identification Read Only
    2-3 Device Identification Read Only
    4-5 Command Read/Write
    6-7 Status Read/Write
    8 Revision D Read Only
    9-Bh Class Code Read Only
    Ch. Cache Line Size Read/Write
    Dh Latency Timer Read/Write
    Eh Header Type Read Only
    Fh Built In Self Test Read/Write
    10-2th Base Address Registers Read/Write
    28h-2Fh Reserved M
    3Oh-33 Expansion ROM Base Address Read/Write
    34h-37h Reserved o
    38h-3B Reserved
    3Ch Interrupt Line Read Only
    3Dh Interrupt Pin Read Only
    3Eh MinGNT Read Only
    3Fh Max-LAT Read Only
    40h-FF Device Specific -

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://www.ardent-tool.com/docs/patent/US5446869.pdf

    I sang this song a hundred, maybe a thousand years ago
    No one ever listens, I just play and then I go
    Off into the sunset like the Western heroes do
    Tell me what you're gonna do


    Ryan Alswede wrote:
    Yes, in a general way. No. No.

    https://www.ardent-tool.com/docs/pdf/PS2_Model_80_Technical_Reference_Apr87.pdf


    Pages 81 and 82.

    Disable interrupts   <-probably not possible in DOS mode
    Push CDSETUP high. 0x96 bit 3
    Disable the card.  0x102 bit 0 to off
    Do POS / XPOS
    Enable the card 0x102 bit 0 to on
    Set CDSETUP Low 0x96 write 0x00
    Reenable interrupts


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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Ryan Alswede on Fri Oct 13 11:46:04 2023
    Uh, I >assume< you get POSID, at least?

    Ryan Alswede wrote:
    The card says nothing back...

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