Re: MSV11-Q info and interesting observation

2020-03-18 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> It includes a table which says which chip each bit in the memory is > stored in Oh, there's an entry (well, actually two) missing from the table, which is the parity bits (2; byte parity); I'll work them out and add them. (I know, by elimination, which two columns of chips are the parit

Re: MSV11-Q info and interesting observation

2020-03-16 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 2:12 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > the MSV11-Q > sends a 'write' signal to _all_ the banks, and selects the one to > _actually_ > use by use of the RAS signal. > [...] > Has anyone else seen this trick used anywhere else? > Yes, that's very

Re: MSV11-Q info and interesting observation

2020-03-16 Thread crufta cat via cctalk
Yes very common with Dram arrays. Similar to write enable on Chipselect for Sram arrays. Allison On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 4:20 PM Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > Noel, you're incredible! Thanks for fuzzing this out, I've been working > on chiming clocks as of late and put this board on the back

Re: MSV11-Q info and interesting observation

2020-03-14 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Noel, you're incredible! Thanks for fuzzing this out, I've been working on chiming clocks as of late and put this board on the back burner, but with this swapping out the bad chip should be a piece of cake. Thank you again! CZ On 3/14/2020 4:12 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: So, a while b

MSV11-Q info and interesting observation

2020-03-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, a while back someone had a broken MSV11-Q QBUS memory card, and needed info on them. I said I'd provide same, but then got distracted. Well, I finally got to it, and it's been added to the CHW page for them: https://gunkies.org/wiki/MSV11-Q_QBUS_memory It includes a table which says which c