I've a Sun 3/80 with a faulty "decode1" chip and would like to try to reverse engineer it but to do so I need to know the pin-out and how it's connected.could just replicate that I should be able to get further in the PROM boot/diag process.
I can get hints of the functionality from the Sun 3/60 schematic on-line but it's different enough to make that information only marginally useful.
Really I could do with a full schematic of the 3/80.
Does anyone know if one still exists and if so how to get it? Or even the pinout of the "decode1" chip would get me a lot of the way given that it's the serial SCC /RD line control which has failed. It *seems* as if the other lines are working so if I
Thanks in advance.
On 05/07/20 20:10, Stephen Usher wrote:I could just replicate that I should be able to get further in the PROM boot/diag process.
I've a Sun 3/80 with a faulty "decode1" chip and would like to try to reverse engineer it but to do so I need to know the pin-out and how it's connected.
I can get hints of the functionality from the Sun 3/60 schematic on-line but it's different enough to make that information only marginally useful.
Really I could do with a full schematic of the 3/80.
Does anyone know if one still exists and if so how to get it? Or even the pinout of the "decode1" chip would get me a lot of the way given that it's the serial SCC /RD line control which has failed. It *seems* as if the other lines are working so if
Thanks in advance.
If you know what address that rd line is at, you could add a small
daughter board that decodes the address and any control signals
as did the original. Perhaps a small gate array would do the job ?...
Chris
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