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- 2. Later I found it was a software problem in AHDI.PRG -- The timing problem
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- between the DMA controller and the drive when handshaking after the Command
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- or Status or Data transfer. When this kind of DMA method transfer occur,
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- first the controller send 6 bytes of the command blocks, then do some hand-
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- shaking, one of the handshaking is get the status byte, but when reading
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- the status byte, have to check and wait for the REQ to come, then read the
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- status byte, and the rest DMA transfer can go on to finish. For the AHDI6.03
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- and HDX5.01, they didn't check and waiting for the REQ to come, then they do
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- the rest of DMA transfer, for some drives if their REQ come very quick, then
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- AHDI6.03 and HDX5.01 won't have the timing problem, so they can work out
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- fine with those kind of drives. But for some drives if their REQ come very
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- slowly, like the Syquest 88MB and IBM OEM 0663E15 1.2GM drives, then the
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- AHDI6.03 and HDX5.01 will have the timing problem which makes the AHDI6.03
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- can't recognize these kind of dirves, and can't read or write the drives.
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- 3. Now, the AHDI6.03a and HDX5.01a have fixed this kind of timing problem, I
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- wrote some codes to check the REQ before continueing to do the rest of DMA
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- transfer in SPSCSI.S of AHDI6.03 and in HDX5.01 too. So they can work well
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- for Syquest 88MB and IBM OEM 0663E15 drive.
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- 4. Also the AHDI6.03 has another problem when it scans the drives in the train,
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- it can't recognize those drive with a slow reset to the ready state inside
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- the drive, for example, the IBM OEM drive. After the AHDI6.03 makes the
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- 'inquiry()' call to request the informations of this drive, AHDI right away
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- to read the Root sector within 1 second, but IBM OEM drive is still not
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- read to be read after the 'inquiry()' call, it takes about 5 second to reset
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- and get the drive ready to be read, so the 'hread()' get the non zero return
- code which is the drive is still busy code, but the AHDI6.03 doesn't check
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- this case, so AHDI treat non zero return will mean no drive in that slot, so
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- the AHDI6.03 can't recognize this kind of drive. Now I add some codes in the
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- 'install.s' to check to see if the drive is busy, if so just loop to try to
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- read it again, or time out. So the AHDI6.03a fixed this bug too.
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- 6. Fix another bug in the 'rescan()' of HDX5.01. If a floptical drive in the
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- system, the HDX will think it is a removable drive, then ingnores to check
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- if it's also a SCSI drive, on the other words, forgets to set a bit in the
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- 'typedev' flag, which later will tell the HDX how to do the format and
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- partition. This bug exist because HDX5.01 thinks removable drive only in the
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- ACSI train, which is not true in today.
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- Aug - Oct 92
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- Up date the HDX to 5.01 version so that can be used for the Falcon:
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- a. Changed the user interface to the scroll bar when selecting which
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- unit is going to be done the partition or format operations.
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- b. Deleted the 'ship' operation from the HDX because the new hard
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- disk will part the head automatically when turning off the power.
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- Oct - Nov 92
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- Up date the other verson of HDX, which can preserve the date inside the
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- partition when doing the repartition, to the 5.01 version level.
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- Present
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- Fixed a bug in the HDX5.01 so that now can be used for the SH204.
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- Read AHDI source codes, and try to understand it. And try to find something
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- new to do.
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- 1. Killed a HDX 5.01 bug which gave some bombs when there was no wincap file
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- next to the HDX.PRG. So now we can run the HDX 5.01 without the wincap file.
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- Wincap file will be needed when those hard disks are not standard, for
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- example, HDX can't get the hard disk informations from those function call
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- 'readcap()', 'inquiry()' and so on.
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