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A2090A ROM Patching
Hello
Just got hold of an A2000 with A2620 and an A2090A, Kick2.05. I want to patch and burn a new eprom in the A2090 to fix the 256MB limit, but I wonder if anyone has any experience with the A2090A patched. Can I then create partitions larger than 256MB or will I just be able to use more than 256MB of the disk in many 256MB partitions? Ideally I would like to have large partitions eg 4GB. Also, If anyone has a A2090A patched ROM and wants to share, I will be most happy. Regards Tommy |
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![]() Thank you for the pointer. Regards Tommy |
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I've been intending to do the same thing, just haven't got around to it.
In my searches I found: http://www.traumstation.ch/hardware/...e/Amiga/A2090/ I _believe_ the kalal rom files are patched, but I haven't tested. You could test them if you are bored ![]() |
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Compared the roms on my controller and the ones in the link. The ones in the link seems to be newer when looking with a hexeditor. Burned them and tried but they didn´t work. Machine booted, but no disks where identified at all. Will see if I can patch the roms myself and try again. Regards Tommy |
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Seems to me the patch is done on the U50 and U51 combined rom file (Unify Bytewise 8-bit in WinHex) at $01E0 where the unpatched version is:
82 FC 00 08 C2 FC 00 08 Which is changed to: 02 81 FF FF FF F8 4E 71 Then "Dissect Bytewise 8-bit" in WinHex to split the files again for burning in the eproms. I have 27256 eproms as U50 and U51 in my machine, there's a lot of empty room. ;-) I intend to do this myself later today. EDIT: The a2090-kalalrom*.bin files are indeed patched, they are ready to be burnt onto 2764 chips. It's also a newer version than mine (5 May 1988), kalal is dated 8 Dec 1996... Last edited by e5frog; 20 May 2017 at 20:08. |
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Someone just changed the date info, the actual driver version is most probably identical to yours.
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Leave the first (auto-mounting/booting) partition as OFS since there's no way to specify MaxTransfer (or Mask) for an FFS boot partition. hdddisk.device v34.4 does support what looks like HD_SCSICMD (SCSI direct). So it's possible that some SCSI-direct-using filesystem like PFS3 could potentially access past 1GB. But it's very unlikely, since hddisk's implementation of HD_SCSICMD is probably early/incomplete/inadequate. Last edited by mark_k; 02 June 2017 at 23:05. |
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