Re: smc ultra (8216) bootrom problems

[Nigel Maddock <nem@uow.edu.au>]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:01:16AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
> 
> >The rom image works ok via floppy.
> 
> Also for the 8216? Your statements are ambigious.

Yes. For both the 8013 and 8216 cards, placing the floppy loader and bootrom
image on a dosk and booting that disk works ok. The rom image loads, obtains
its ip address, then tftp's ok.

When this image (wd.rom) is burnt into a rom, only the 8013 works.

> >The rom image sucessfully boots SMC 8013's quite happily. (all 14 sofar :)
> >The rom image (wd.rom) supposedly works for both 8013's and 8216's
> >
> >ROM-SCAN.EXE reports:
> >"Found ROM header at D800:0000; announces 16k image (27C128 EPROM)"
> 
> What if you run debug.exe, can you display the memory region in question
> and does it look right? No conflicts with other ROMs like SCSI adaptors,
> etc?

There is nothing special in these machines, and they are all identical.
ethernet card, graphics card...thats all.

I'll look at debug.

> >When attempting to boot, it just skips over the rom and attempts to boot
> >from floppy. 
> >
> >Any ideas/hints/suggestions?
> 
> Is the ROM fast enough?

What does the speed of the rom need to be matched to? Things work ok for the
8013's with the rest of the computer being identical.
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