[iyonix-support] Re: Acorn Scsi on the Iyonix?

In message <1c26f98a4e.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          "David J. Ruck" <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 24 Nov 2006 Ron <iyonix@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> [Iyonix podule backplane]
> 
> > Is it different electrically though? 
> 
> Its different physically, the motherboard end is an edge connector.
>
I think they all use edge connector, from RiscPC/A7000 on, anyway
> > I have tried assembling the SCSISoftWD33C93 with ASM but get syntax
> > errors. I will try with my aged Acorn C++ package if it installs on my
> > RiscPC ok.
> 
> I haven't looked at the code, but it may well need ObjAsm rather than ASM.
> Assemble with ObjAsm -ABSolute and link with Link -bin  to produce a binary
> directly
> 
> > The Assembler book seems to be aware of 32bit but wether it
> > will generate 32bit code, I dont know.   - Ron 
> 
> If you put 32bit assembler in, you get 32bit code out in absolute mode,
> if producing objects specify -apcs 3/32 to generate the correct header
> for the linker.
> 
> Cheers
> ---Dave
> 
The Acorn assembler is a little more in tune, reporting that it can't
get 16 Headers, which need to be in the hdr directory I imagine.
After remming out the GET hdr lines I get 51 errors with mostly 'unknown
opcodes'.
Thanks for the help,  but I dont think I can make it work.  - Ron 

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