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From: nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: 13 sector or 16 sector Disk ][ card?
Date: 14 Jun 1997 08:33:57 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
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In article <pdueck-1406970030180001@dial15.pli.mb.ca> pdueck@pli.mb.ca (Perry
Dueck) writes:
>Perhaps a bit of a stupid question, but here it goes anyways (for my
>benefit if nothing else): :)
>
>How would one distinguish between a Disk ][ card which is capable of 13
>sectors (original...wayyyyy back in the early days of the Apple ][), and a
>16 sector Disk ][ interface card? Are the ROM chips marked with a special
>number to distinguish between the two different kinds or something?
For a while at least, new 16-sector Disk II cards shipped with a little
white circular sticker depicting a red Apple with the number "16" in the
middle.
But the sticker is hardly a reliable test. A better test is to look look
at the part numbers of the P5 PROM (the lower left chip on the card) and
the P6 PROM (left column, second from the top).
13-sector 16-sector
--------- ---------
P5 341-0009-xx 341-0027-xx
P6 341-0010-xx 341-0028-xx
The 16-sector PROMs may also be labelled "P5A" and "P6A".
A program can test the card type by looking at its slot ROM space. The
signature bytes are as follows:
$Cn01: 20
$Cn03: 00
$Cn05: 03
$Cn07: 3C
$CnFF: 00 if 16-sector, FF if 13-sector
For example,
1 REM Scan the slots for Disk II interfaces
2 REM By Neil Parker
10 FOR S = 1 TO 7
20 A = 49152 + 256 * S
30 IF PEEK (A + 1) < > 32 OR PEEK (A + 3) < > 0 OR PEEK (A + 5)
< > 3 OR PEEK (A + 7) < > 60 THEN 100
40 PRINT "Disk II (";
50 T = PEEK (A + 255)
60 IF T = 0 THEN PRINT "16-sector";: GOTO 90
70 IF T = 255 THEN PRINT "13-sector";: GOTO 90
80 PRINT "other";
90 PRINT ") in slot "S
100 NEXT
- Neil Parker
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