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   66182018   
   From: ohland@charter.net   
      
   Also, the EEPROM is identified as "Boot Block". Makes me wonder if   
   previous attempts to go to 3.x used the correct Bottom [B] or Top [T]   
   versions of the 28F001BXT/BXB ?   
      
   Louis Ohland wrote:   
   > 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/KxhTr   
   9mGY0/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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