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- From: nparker@cie.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Fatal Error 0911
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 10:38:34 GMT
- Organization: The Universal Society for the Prevention of Reality
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- In article <1ih1ioINNa3u@gap.caltech.edu> toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P.
- Whitesel) writes:
- >[...]
- >One thing _I_ would love to know is just what the heck is it doing when it
- >gets a 911 anyway? Synchronizing to the ADB implies that it is trying to
- >establish communication with the microcontroller, and it seems to me that
- >you'd have a _huge_ tolerance on the timeout for that. Unless the ADB micro
- >just crashes or hangs ??
-
- The 0911 error is generated when the system tries to send an ADB Sync ($07)
- command to the microcontroller. The Sync command is supposed to be
- followed by four bytes of data (the ADB mode byte, the keyboard and mouse
- address byte, the keyboard and display language byte, and the auto-repeat
- timing byte). After sending the Sync command, the ROM gives the controller
- time to act on it, and if the ROM times out before the controller is ready
- to receive the data bytes, then error 0911 happens.
-
- It looks to me like it's a failure with either the ADB command/data
- register at $C026, or the ADB status register at $C027. One of three
- things appears to be happening:
-
- * The command or data byte isn't making it through the command/data
- register to the ADB, or
- * The command or data byte is getting through, but the ADB is failing
- to acknowledge it, or
- * It gets in and gets acknowledged, but the acknowledgement never
- makes it back out through the ADB status register.
-
- I doubt it's any kind of failure on the ADB data bus--when my machine gets
- into one of its 0911 fits, the _ReadKeyMicroMem tool call (which shouldn't
- have to touch the bus) starts returning error $0910 ("command not
- completed").
-
- I recommend disassembling the relevant ROM code (which is at $FF/84FC in
- ROM 01...if you don't have ROM 01, just follow the RESET code at $FF/FA62--it
- eventually leads to the ADB Sync code).
-
- - Neil Parker
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