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First post, by 80386SX

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Hello all,

Just want to find the model number of an MFM controller board please.

Attached ahead the eeprom dump, if it can be useful to someone one day 😀

Many thanks!

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Reply 1 of 10, by Horun

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No clue and have never seen a Cirrus Logic chip on any MFM controller yet.

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Reply 2 of 10, by Grzyb

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That logo on the sticker...
TMC = Taiwan MyComp Corporation - Re: 80386 BIOS image collection
TMC = Tiva Microcomputer Corporation - Re: Some questions about a Hercules card

Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją górę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.

Reply 3 of 10, by Grzyb

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See also this card...

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FHG5UA-IOS - 1986-10-06 - Taiwan Mycomp Corporation - Taiwan
FHH5UA-DGP - 1987-12-08 - Tiva Microcomputer Corporation (TMC) - United States

Looks like different divisions of the same company...

Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją górę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.

Reply 4 of 10, by Grzyb

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And the model name seems to be DC2-1.00
aligns perfectly with their naming convention, see eg. PUMA200-1.40 , IFSP-1.00 , IFSP-1.20

Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją górę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.

Reply 6 of 10, by Grzyb

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dr.ido wrote on 2023-06-17, 08:57:

Sure it's MFM? Never seen a standard AT MFM controller with a boot ROM. Looks more like ESDI than MFM to me.

That ROM looks like firmware running on the onboard microcontroller, rather than BIOS extension running on the CPU.

Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją górę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.

Reply 7 of 10, by Horun

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Grzyb wrote on 2023-06-17, 02:11:

That logo on the sticker...
TMC = Taiwan MyComp Corporation - Re: 80386 BIOS image collection
TMC = Tiva Microcomputer Corporation - Re: Some questions about a Hercules card

Good eye ! Yes that is a TMC logo. Unfortunately their website archive does not list any hard drive adapters, except a pci scsi:
http://web.archive.org/web/19970329213739/htt … mycomp-tmc.com/

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Reply 9 of 10, by Grzyb

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TMC provided a driver for 3rd and 4th floppy drives connected to that controller...
download - Re: ISA SCSI w/Floppy Controller
description - https://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/floppies.html#dosextra

Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją górę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.

Reply 10 of 10, by Horun

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Agree ! Based on this: https://retrocmp.de/hardware/tmc-ifsp/tmc-ifsp.htm which uses same floppy controller DP8473v, DC2.sys should work.

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