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Below is the documentation for the files which are to be run on a disk as a
burn-in for Kaypro computers. In order to work, they must all be PIPed to a
diskette which has been SYSGENed.
AUTOON.COM is a routine which will turn the disk in A into an auto boot
which will subsequently (when cold or warm booted) come up
and look for the program AUTO.COM to run.
AUTO.COM is a routine to disable the auto boot function which was
enabled by AUTOON.COM, and also to tell the system to submit
the file TEST.SUB. This means you can auto-boot a submit
file.
AUTOOF.COM is a routine to make the disk in A a normal (not auto-boot)
disk.
TEST??.SUB are a series of submit files to save and erase 5 files to
check whether the system can successfully do this a number
of times. TEST.SUB will start TEST1.SUB and so on until
TEST10.SUB, which as its parting gesture will start TESTM.SUB.
TESTM.SUB is a submit file to run the two memory tests TESTLO and
TESTHI.COM, each of which will test a portion of memory for
0FF hex times and then boot the system. If they were star-
ted from a submit file then the next line in the submit file
is run. As a parting gesture TESTM will submit TEST.SUB
which will start the cycle all over again.
TESTLO.COM is a memory test which will test the memory from 0000 hex
to 8000 hex. The sequence fills memory with the low-order
of the address of the memory cell to test and then tests for
that value to be there. There is a delay from when the test
begins to write the cell until the cell is written. The next
step will fill all the memory cells with the high-order
addresses and will check with a delay between. The object of
these two exercises is to check that the memory chips can
successfully decode the appropriate address. Next, memory is
filled with and checked for AA hex and 55 hex, which will de-
termine if all bits can be set to a 1 and 0.
In all cases, if an error is detected the address as well as
the byte we want and the byte we got is reported and the pro-
gram will stop.
TESTHI.COM is the same as TESTLO above except it tests from 84DC hex
to FFFF hex.
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The following is documentation for the other files on this diagnostics disk.
ALIGN.COM Fills the screen with the letter "H", with two lines of print
to mark center of screen vertically, and two flashing charac-
ters in the center of each line to mark center of screen hori-
zontally. Makes CRT adjustment easier; reset to exit.
D.COM Lists directory entries alphabetically; it also shows the
amount of space each file occupies on the diskette.
DU.COM Diskette utility program that allows reading from or writing
to any sector on a diskette.
DUMP.COM This version of DUMP displays the ASCII characters beside the
corresponding line of hex code.
HOF.COM For use with the Dysan Alignment diskette (Part No. 800183),
it steps the drive heads in and out in response to the cursor
keys on the keyboard.
RDOT.COM Alternately writes to and reads from each track and sector
of diskettes in both drives; then displays the number of
retries for each sector, track, and disk. Begin this test
with drive B door open.
SPIO.COM A test for parallel and serial port functions, it requires a
test jig consisting of:
1) a parallel connector with a piece of cable connecting it
to a breadboard with 8 LED's each wired through a 200 ohm
resistor to the +5V line of the main board power connector.
2) an RS-232 connector with pin 2 jumpered to pin 3, and pin
8 jumpeered to pin 20.
3) a jumper between pin 1 of the parallel connector and pin
5 of the RS-232 connector; also a jumper between pin 11
of the parallel connector and pin 4 of the RS-232 con-
nector.