Re: [volt-nuts] solartron 7081 rom reading q

2013-01-13 Thread J. L. Trantham
MK, I am not aware of a way to read the EPROM's without removing them. Dave Partridge has done a lot of work on these along with Mickle, both on the list. Dave Partridge's EPROM images are on Didier's site. I have read the EPROM's from two of these units, of two different vintages IIRC, and

Re: [volt-nuts] vSolartron7081 rom reading

2013-01-13 Thread Bill Ezell
Going from memory, no, you have to pull the roms and read them. At least, that's what a few of us in the group have done. You can access ram and nvram, though. -- Bill Ezell -- They said 'Windows or better' so I used Linux. ___ volt-nuts

Re: [volt-nuts] vSolartron7081 rom reading

2013-01-13 Thread David C. Partridge
Actually, I believe that the MONITOR command will allow you look at storage anywhere within the address space of either of the processors, see pages 8.1 through 8.5 of the service manual. So it should be possible to READ the ROMs this way if both processors are working and communicating.

Re: [volt-nuts] vSolartron7081 rom reading

2013-01-13 Thread m k
Hi David, well it is currently working and close to calibrated as far as I can tell. But I want to get those calibration factors saved before it dies on me. Last calibrated 2008, and well down on drift by now. I get a diurnal 0.14 microvolt drift with a shorting plug that stays on when not

Re: [volt-nuts] vSolartron7081 rom reading

2013-01-13 Thread David C. Partridge
If all you want is to save the calibration factors, just issue CALIBRATE,DUMP command To refresh the EAROM calibration factors, issue CALIBRATE,REFRESH - barring component failure that should be good for another ten years or so. You can also display the NVM contents with the MONITOR command,