Re: 8042 output port bits 4/5?

Posted on 2023-09-19, 14:49

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And it looks like I typo'd above, I meant, until OBF is clear. Basically, there's two conditions for a command to be processed: IBF set and OBF clear, ie. there must be a byte in the input buffer and nothing in the output buffer.

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Re: 8042 output port bits 4/5?

Posted on 2023-09-18, 18:55

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- superfury: From what I see in the disassembled and commented IBM AT and PS/2 8042 firmwares on halicery (you need to use the Wayback Machine now since the site is now gone), commands are not processed until IBF is clear (ie. there is no incoming data to be read).

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Re: Actual value of some bits on the interrupt status register on the ES1371

Posted on 2023-08-11, 00:50

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Thanks to a friend of mine managing to obtain a real ES1371 and another friend of mine then probing it, I can now answer my own question - the datasheet is in fact correct. Said Windows XP driver was even observed to also BSoD on the real card, which means it's not actually an ES1371 driver.

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Actual value of some bits on the interrupt status register on the ES1371

Posted on 2023-07-20, 22:29

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I am wodnering what the actual value of bits 30 to 9 of the interrupt status register on the ES1371 is. The datasheet says they should be all 1 but if Windows XP sees that bit 13 is set, it tries to execute a DPC that has not been set (because it's only set on ES1371 revision >= 4) and therefore has …

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Re: How is a non-present slave detected on an ATA channel?

Posted on 2022-05-01, 23:01

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Michal Necasek investigated this some time ago and posted here: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/reading-from-void/ Summarizing the relevant point of that post: IDE interface boards should make sure that BSY appears clear if the drive doesn't actively pull it high. It does so by having a pull-down …

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Re: Effect of ELCR set on the IRQ lines and 8259 PIC?

Posted on 2022-05-01, 16:16

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I believe that's an erratum in the Intel PIIX/PIIX3 datasheet - I believe the specification update says it should be active high instead. So the effect is the same as setting the edge/level setting of the PIC (which does not work on the PIIX* precisely because the ELCR is meant to be used instead), …

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Re: 2 short beeps warning, I'm at a loss! [SOLVED]

Posted on 2022-02-24, 16:28

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Would it be possible to upload a dump of this board's BIOS?

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Re: Ensoniq / Creative AudioPCI

Posted on 2022-01-20, 01:11

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I have a question - how does the MIDI UART FIFO work on this? The datasheet is very unclear on this. There's 8 bytes of FIFO, but are all 8 bytes used for TX and RX together, are there 4 bytes for TX + 4 bytes for RX, or what's going on?

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2021-12-26, 18:43

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Well, the status of the chip can be easily determined by booting the machine and seeing if you still see that 'P' at the right end of the string at the bottom, as that comes from the keyboard controller (command 0xA1). If it's there, then the keyboard controller is working and the problem is …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2021-12-26, 15:50

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Hello Mumak, I saw this thread, and I'd thought I'd help. Never have I've been so excited to run HWINFO before! (being serious) I grabbed the latest version from your website (modified date April 13, 2020), which is older than the one you just posted above, but I encountered no issues, so I guess …

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Re: UMC UM82C491 datasheet?

Posted on 2021-12-17, 23:38

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Anonymous Coward wrote on 2017-01-05, 22:45: Nope. I downloaded all the datasheets for 386/486 chipsets I could find. Aside from the 480 chipset, I couldn't find any others for UMC. Would you be able to upload the UMC 480 datasheet somewhere? As I can't find it anywhere anymore.

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2021-12-14, 00:03

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Hello Mumak, I saw this thread, and I'd thought I'd help. Never have I've been so excited to run HWINFO before! (being serious) I grabbed the latest version from your website (modified date April 13, 2020), which is older than the one you just posted above, but I encountered no issues, so I guess …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2021-12-10, 22:51

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It's fine to put them here, just put them into a .RAR or something and they can be attached easily. And sad to hear that about your 286.

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2021-12-10, 21:57

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Oh, thank you very much! Yes, I meant the 386SX. Also, I have now attached JETKEY.COM (in it own .RAR on this post) that does the excat same (except the file is named JETKEY.BIN), but saves the output file after every keyboard controller command run, just in case AMIKEY.COM ends up in a hang or …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2021-12-10, 11:33

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I see, but that's missing the final character that only appears on the POST screen, and is obtained by running keyboard controller command 0xA1 (AMI get controller version), and that's what I need, in order to know which AMI keyboard controller version that copyright string belongs to.

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2021-12-10, 10:52

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Hello an info on the fly. I restarted a 386SX and I was wondering: can your program work? I remember that it goes on the 386 but I don't know if it works on the 386SX, this being quite similar to a 286 (ie 16 bit instead of the 32 of the 386). If it is possible I would like to try it these days, I …

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Re: 86Box increase speed

Posted on 2021-11-01, 09:45

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You just need to go to Settings and choose an emulated machine that's ACPI-capable. On PCem, that's going to be that lonely Gigabyte with 440BX and the one VIA Super Socket 7 machine, but on 86Box, you have a wider selection of machines with ACPI, including for Pentium, eg. the NuPro with 430TX.

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Re: 86Box IBM AT 5170 Emulation and Advanced Diagnostics Disk Error

Posted on 2021-11-01, 09:33

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The real 5170 isn't going to override whatever the diagnostics diskette writes there with date and time from somewhere else, so it's very unlikely the diagnostics diskette is going to be reading that value from the century register at that point. I also haven't tried forcing, say, a value of 19h (ie …

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Re: 80x86/Vxx PC emulators with x87, EMS, UMBs and no artificial 640KiB limit ?

Posted on 2021-09-21, 09:40

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Jo22 wrote: Do PCem/86Box now finally support 704K of working RAM ? 86Box should be able to do that if you use one of the emulated memory expansion cards and configure its size and starting address correctly.

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2021-08-01, 18:17

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I stand corrected, that's not an 82C311 but an 82C711, which is an I/O chip that, for some reason, uses the same protocol as SMC. This means the MG-9275 remains a mystery - someone in this thread probed the VL82C330 ID registers on it and got FF, so it must be something else. The question is what.

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