66182018   
   28c07074   
   From: ohland@charter.net   
      
   https://sup.xenya.si/sup/info/mylex/960PD-PL/PF3D2.PDF   
      
   page 49   
      
   EEPROM Only U47 is occupied for firmware versions prior to 3.x.   
           U34 & U47 are both occupied for firmware 3.x or greater.   
      
   Also, the manuel identifies a DAC960PD-Ultra... remember the D040351 has   
   an FCCID of D5NDAC960PDU-2   
      
   Louis Ohland wrote:   
   > Folks, I've dabbled in a number of arcane devices over the decades.   
   > Sifting through IBM Technoslovakian -AND- poorly written ad copy   
   > sharpens one's perception [or destroys it...].   
   >   
   > Mylex discriminates between one CHIP and two CHIP DAC960. Why isn't that   
   > SOCKET? Further, one can see two socket DAC960 with one EEPROM.   
   >   
   > So, while Peter has come up with a Baron Von Münchhausen class of   
   > fantastical story, it seems quite possumble...   
   >   
   > Some other oorts to run down...   
   >   
   >  From Peter   
   > https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware/c/KxhTry   
   mGY0/m/pBFBIj3B9NwJ   
   >   
   >   
   > The only -probably working but yet untested- method to get the old   
   > single-flash 960P to a BIOS 3.x seem to include externally copying of   
   > the 28F1001 chips. You need two chips, erase them, then copy the   
   > firmware with an Eprommer into the lower / upper 128K. Each chip is 128K   
   > x 8 bit. The one actually present on the 960P is only the lower. The   
   > socket for the upper memory range is yet unpopulated.   
   >   
   > I'd tried stuffing in an empty 128K chip into that socket and then flash   
   > to 3.x but the only thing I got was a Raid-Adapter firmware error with   
   > the second chip installed right after power on and the "Flasher"   
   > software refused to run the upgrade.   
   >   
   > Too bad.   
      
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