[Coco] Looking for MPI circuit diagram
Robert Gault
robert.gault at att.net
Sun Dec 12 16:33:14 EST 2010
I just had a bug develop with my 26-3024 MPI which has been upgraded for Coco3
use. I'm thinking I may have a partially blown address chip[ for slot 3 because
of the following symptoms.
System is a 512K RAM Coco3 with two scsi hard drives, KenTon interface and SC-II
floppy controller. The hard drive system is set to boot into NitrOS-9 without
using any floppies.
There are many combinations of SC-II, RS-232 pak, and KenTon interface regards
slot positions in the MPI. Most of these combinations work perfectly and will
boot into NitrOS-9 from the hard drive.
One set of combinations will not boot into NitrOS-9 and these have one thing in
common, the SC-II controller is in slot-3. The boot process freezes just before
the Welcome message is written to the screen.
I don't see how there can be anything wrong with the SC-II, RS-232, or KenTon
paks. There is nothing wrong with the software either because NitrOS-9 will boot
given certain MPI slot combinations. There is nothing in the NitrOS-9 code that
is slot dependent during the boot process. If there were, note that having the
SC-II in slot-3 worked in the past as recently as last night.
If an IC in the MPI has blown, which one could produce symptoms of this type
which seems weird to me. Unfortunately the only socketed IC in the MPI is the
PAL chip so repairs will not be easy.
A circuit diagram of the MPI might help with this problem. Anyone know where I
could download a schematic?
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