================================================================ Floppy Disk Utility (FDU) v5.3 for RetroBrew Computers Disk IO / Zeta / Dual-IDE / N8 / RC2014 / SmallZ80 / Dyno ================================================================ Updated January 5, 2020 by Wayne Warthen (wwarthen@gmail.com) Application to test the hardware functionality of the Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) on the ECB DISK I/O, DISK I/O V3, ZETA SBC, Dual IDE w/ Floppy, or N8 board. The intent is to provide a testbed that allows direct testing of all possible media types and modes of access. The application supports read, write, and format by sector, track, and disk as well as a random read/write test. The application supports access modes of polling, interrupt, INT/WAIT, and DRQ/WAIT. At present, it supports 3.5" media at DD (720KB) and HD (1.44MB) capacities. It also now supports 5.25" media (720KB and 1.2MB) and 8" media (1.11MB) as well. Additional media will be added when I have time and access to required hardware. Not all modes are supported on all platforms and some modes are experimental in all cases. In many ways this application is merely reinventing the wheel and performs functionality similar to existing applications, but I have not seen any other applications for RetroBrew Computers hardware that provide this range of functionality. While the application is now almost entirely new code, I would like to acknowledge that much was derived from the previous work of Andrew Lynch and Dan Werner. I also want to credit Sergio Gimenez with testing the 5.25" drive support and Jim Harre with testing the 8" drive support. Support for Zeta 2 comes from Segey Kiselev. Thanks! General Usage ------------- In general, usage is self explanatory. At invocation, you must select the floppy disk controller (FDC) that you are using. Subsequently, the main menu allows you to set the unit, media, and mode to test. These settings MUST match your situation. Read, write, format, and verify functions are provided. A sub-menu will allow you to choose sector, track, disk, or random tests. The verify function requires a little explanation. It will take the contents of the current in-memory disk buffer, save it, and compare it to the selected sectors. So, you must ensure that the sectors to be verified already have been written with the same pattern as the buffer contains. I typically init the buffer to a pattern, write the pattern to the entire disk, then verify the entire disk. Another submenu is provided for FDC commands. This sub-menu allows you to send low-level commands directly to FDC. You *must* know what you are doing to use this sub-menu. For example, in order to read a sector using this sub-menu, you will need to perform specify, seek, sense int, and read commands specifying correct values (nothing is value checked in this menu). Required Hardware/BIOS ---------------------- Of course, the starting point is to have a supported hardware configuration. The following Z80 / Z180 based CPU boards are supported: - SBC V1/2 - Zeta - Zeta 2 - N8 - Mark IV - RC2014 w/ SMC - RC2014 w/ WDC - SmallZ80 - Dyno You must be using either a RomWBW or UBA based OS version. You must have one of the following floppy disk controllers: - Disk IO ECB Board FDC - Disk IO 3 ECB Board FDC - Dual-IDE ECB Board FDC - Zeta SBC onboard FDC - Zeta 2 SBC onboard FDC - N8 SBC onboard FDC - RC2014 Scott Baker SMC-based Floppy Module - RC2014 Scott Baker WDC-based Floppy Module Finally, you will need a floppy drive connected via an appropriate cable: Disk IO - no twist in cable, drive unit 0/1 must be selected by jumper on drive DISK IO 3, Zeta, Zeta 2, RC2014, Dyno - cable with twist, unit 0 after twist, unit 1 before twist DIDE, N8, Mark IV, SmallZ80 - cable with twist, unit 0 before twist, unit 1 after twist Note that FDU does not utilize your systems ROM or OS to access the floppy system. FDU interacts directly with hardware. Upon exit, you may need to reset your OS to get the floppy system back into a state that is expected. The Disk I/O should be jumpered as follows: J1: depends on use of interrupt modes (see interrupt modes below) J2: pins 1-2, & 3-4 jumpered J3: hardware dependent timing for DMA mode (see DMA modes below) J4: pins 2-3 jumpered J5: off J6: pins 2-3 jumpered J7: pins 2-3 jumpered J8: off J9: off J10: off J11: off J12: off Note that J1 can be left on even when not using interrupt modes. As long as the BIOS is OK with it, that is fine. Note also that J3 is only relevant for DMA modes, but also can be left in place when using other modes. The Disk I/O 3 board should be jumpered at the default settings: JP2: 3-4 JP3: 1-2 for int mode support, otherwise no jumper JP4: 1-2, 3-4 JP5: 1-2 JP6: 1-2 JP7: 1-2, 3-4 Zeta & Zeta 2 do not have any relevant jumper settings. The hardwired I/O ranges are assumed in the code. The Dual-IDE board should be jumpered as follows: K3 (DT/R or /RD): /RD P5 (bd ID): 1-2, 3-4 (for $20-$3F port range) There are no specific N8 jumper settings, but the default I/O range starting at $80 is assumed in the published code. The RC2014 Scott Baker SMC-based floppy module should be jumpered for I/O base address 0x50 (SV1: 11-12), JP1 (TS) shorted, JP2 (/FAULT) shorted, JP3 (MINI): 2-3, JP4 (/DC/RDY): 2-3. The RC2014 Scott Baker WDC-based floppy module should be jumpered for I/O base address 0x50 (SV1: 11-12), JP1 (/DACK): 1-2, JP2 (TC): 2-3. SmallZ80 does not have any relevant jumper settings. The hardwired I/O ranges are assumed in the code. Dyno does not have any relevant jumper settings. The hardwired I/O ranges are assumed in the code. Modes of Operation ------------------ You can select the following test modes. Please refer to the chart that follows to determine which modes should work with combinations of Z80 CPU speed and media format. WARNING: In general, only the polling mode is considered fully reliable. The other modes are basically experimental and should only be used if you know exactly what you are doing. Polling: Traditional polled input/output. Works well and very reliable with robust timeouts and good error recovery. Also, the slowest performance which precludes it from being used with 1.44MB floppy on a 4MHz Z80. This is definitely the mode you want to get working before any others. It does not require J1 (interrupt enable) on DISK I/O and does not care about the setting of J3. Interrupt: Relies on FDC interrupts to determine when a byte is ready to be read/written. It does *not* implement a timeout during disk operations. For example, if there is no disk in the drive, this mode will just hang until a disk is inserted. This mode *requires* that the host has interrupts active using interrupt mode 1 (IM1) and interrupts attached to the FDC controller. The BIOS must be configured to handle these interrupts safely. Fast Interrupt: Same as above, but sacrifices additional reliability for faster operation. This mode will allow a 1.44MB floppy to work with a 4MHz Z80 CPU. However, if any errors occur (even a transient read error which is not unusual), this mode will hang. The same FDC interrupt requirements as above are required. INT/WAIT: Same as Fast Interrupt, but uses CPU wait instead of actual interrupt. This mode is exclusive to the original Disk IO board. It is subject to all the same issues as Fast Interrupt, but does not need J1 shorted. J3 is irrelevant. DRQ/WAIT: Uses pseudo DMA to handle input/output. Does not require that interrupts (J1) be enabled on the DISK I/O. However, it is subject to all of the same reliability issues as "Fast Interrupt". This mode is exclusive to the original Disk IO board. At present, the mode is *not* implemented! The chart below attempts to describe the combinations that work for me. By far, the most reliable mode is Polling, but it requires 8MHz CPU for HD disks. DRQ/WAIT --------------------------------+ INT/WAIT -----------------------------+ | Fast Interrupt --------------------+ | | Interrupt ----------------------+ | | | Polling ---------------------+ | | | | | | | | | CPU Speed --------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3.5" DD (720K) ------ 4MHz Y Y Y Y X 8MHz+ Y Y Y Y X 3.5" HD (1.44M) ----- 4MHz N N Y Y X 8MHz+ Y Y Y Y X 5.25" DD (360K) ----- 4MHz Y Y Y Y X 8MHz+ Y Y Y Y X 5.25" HD (1.2M) ----- 4MHz N N Y Y X 8MHz+ Y Y Y Y X 8" DD (1.11M) ------- 4MHz N N Y Y X 8MHz+ Y Y Y Y X Y = Yes, works N = No, does not work X = Experimental, probably won't work Tracing ------- Command/result activity to/from the FDC will be written out if the trace setting is changed from '00' to '01' in setup. Additionally, if a command failure is detected on any command, that specific comand and results are written regardless of the trace setting. The format of the line written is: : --> [] For example, this is the output of a normal read operation: READ: 46 01 00 00 01 02 09 1B FF --> 01 00 00 00 00 02 02 [OK] Please refer to the i8272 data sheet for information on the command and result bytes. Note that the sense interrupt command can return a non-OK result. This is completely normal in some cases. It is necessary to "poll" the drive for seek status using sense interrupt. If there is nothing to report, then the result will be INVALID COMMAND. Additionally, during a recalibrate operation, it may be necessary to issue the command twice because the command will only step the drive 77 times looking for track 0, but the head may be up to 80 tracks away. In this case, the first recalibrate fails, but the second should succeed. Here is what this would look like if trace is turned on: RECALIBRATE: 07 01 --> [OK] SENSE INTERRUPT: 08 --> 80 [INVALID COMMAND] ... ... ... SENSE INTERRUPT: 08 --> 80 [INVALID COMMAND] SENSE INTERRUPT: 08 --> 71 00 [ABNORMAL TERMINATION] RECALIBRATE: 07 01 --> [OK] SENSE INTERRUPT: 08 --> 21 00 [OK] Another example is when the FDC has just been reset. In this case, you will see up to 4 disk change errors. Again these are not a real problem and to be expected. When tracing is turned off, the application tries to be intelligent about error reporting. The specific errors from sense interrupt documented above will be suppressed because they are not a real problem. All other errors will be displayed. Error Handling -------------- There is no automated error retry logic. This is very intentional since the point is to expose the controller and drive activity. Any error detected will result in a prompt to abort, retry, or continue. Note that some number of errors is considered normal for this technology. An occasional error would not necessarily be considered a problem. CPU Speed --------- Starting with v5.0, the application adjusts it's timing loops to the actual system CPU speed by querying the BIOS for the current CPU speed. Interleave ---------- The format command now allows the specification of a sector interleave. It is almost always the case that the optimal interleave will be 2 (meaning 2:1). 360K Media ---------- The 360K media definition should work well for true 360K drives. However, it will generally not work with 1.2M drives. This is because these drives spin at 360RPM instead of the 300RPM speed of true 360K drives. Additionally, 1.2M drives are 80 tracks and 360K drives are 40 tracks and, so far, there is no mechanism in FD to "double step" as a way to use 40 track media in 80 track drives. With this said, it is possible to configure some 1.2M 5.25" drives to automatically spin down to 300RPM based on a density select signal (DENSEL). This signal is asserted by FD for 360K media, so IF you have configured your drive to react to this signal correctly, you will be able to use the 360K media defintion. Most 1.2M 5.25" drives are NOT configured this way by default. TEAC drives are generally easy to modify and have been tested by the author and do work in this manner. Note that this does not address the issue of double stepping above; you will just be using the first 40 of 80 tracks. Support ------- I am happy to answer questions as fast and well as I am able. Best contact is wwarthen@gmail.com or post something on the RetroBrew Computers Forum https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org/forum/. Changes ------- WW 8/12/2011 Removed call to pulse TC in the FDC initialization after determining that it periodically caused the FDC to write bad sectors. I am mystified by this, but definitely found it to be true. Will revisit at some point -- probably a timing issue between puslsing TC and whatever happens next. Non-DMA mode was being set incorrectly for FAST-DMA mode. It was set for non-DMA even though we were doing DMA. It is interesting that it worked fine anyway. Fixed it anyway. DIO_SETMEDIA was not clearing DCD_DSKRDY as it should. Fixed. WW 8/26/2011: v1.1 Added support for Zeta. Note that INT/WAIT and DRQ/WAIT are not available on Zeta. Note that Zeta provides the ability to perform a reset of the FDC independent of a full CPU reset. This is VERY useful and the FDC is reset anytime a drive reset is required. Added INT/WAIT support. WW 8/28/2011: V1.2 All changes in this version are Zeta specific. Fixed FDC reset logic and motor status display for Zeta (code from Sergey). Modified Zeta disk change display to include it in the command output line. This makes more sense because a command must be issued to select the desired drive first. You can use the SENSE INT command id you want to check the disk change value at any time. It will also be displayed with any other command output display. WW 9/1/2011: V1.3 Added CPUFREQ configuration setting to tune delays based on cpu speed. The build app is set for 8MHz which also seems to work well for 4MHz CPU's. Faster CPU speeds will probably require tuning this setting. WW 9/5/2011: V1.4 Changed the polling execution routines to utilize CPUFREQ variable to optimize timeout counter. Most importantly, this should allow the use of faster CPUs (like 20MHz). WW 9/19/2011: V1.5 Zeta changes only. Added a call to FDC RESET after any command failure. This solves an issue where the drive remains selected if a command error occurs. Also added FDC RESET to FDC CONTROL menu. WW 10/7/2011: V2.0 Added support for DIDE. Only supports polling IO and it does not appear any other modes are possible given the hardware constraints. WW 10/13/2011: V2.1 Modified to support N8. N8 is essentially identical to Dual IDE. The only real change is the IO addresses. In theory, I should be able to support true DMA on N8 and will work on that. WW 10/20/2011: v2.2 I had some problems with the results being read were sometimes missing a byte. Fixed this by taking a more strict approach to watching the MSR for the exact bits that are expected. WW 10/22/2011: V2.3 After spending a few days trying to track down an intermittent data corruption issue with my Dual IDE board, I added a verify function. This helped me isolate the problem very nicely (turned out to be interference from the bus monitor). WW 11/25/2011: V2.4 Preliminary support for DISKIO V3. Basically just assumed that it operates just like the Zeta. Needs to be verified with real hardware as soon as I can. WW 1/9/2012: V2.5 Modified program termination to use CP/M reset call so that a warm start is done and all drives are logged out. This is important because media may have been formatted during the program execution. WW 2/6/2012: v2.6 Added support for 5.25" drives as tested by Sergio. WW 4/5/2012: v2.7 Added support for 8" drives as tested by Jim Harre. WW 4/6/2012: v2.7a Fixed issue with media selection menu to remove duplicate entries. WW 4/8/2012: v2.7b Corrected the handling of the density select signal. WW 5/22/2012: v2.8 Added new media definitions (5.25", 320K). WW 6/1/2012: v2.9 Added interleave capability on format. WW 6/5/2012: v3.0 Documentation cleanup. WW 7/1/2012: v3.1 Modified head load time (HLT) for 8" media based on YD-180 spec. Now set to 50ms. WW 6/17/2013: v3.2 Cleaned up SRT, HLT, and HUT values. SK 2/10/2015: v3.3 Added Zeta SBC v2 support (Sergey Kiselev) WW 3/25/2015: v4.0 Renamed from FDTST --> FD WW 9/2/2017: v5.0 Renamed from FD to FDU. Added runtime selection of FDC hardware. Added runtime timing adjustment. WW 12/16/2017: v5.1 Improved polling version of read/write to fix occasional overrun errors. WW 1/8/2018: v5.2 Added support for RC2014 hardware: - Scott Baker SMC 9266 FDC module - Scott Baker WDC 37C65 FDC module WW 9/5/2018: v5.3 - Removed use of pulsing TC to end R/W operations after one sector and instead set EOT = R (sector number) so that after desired sector is read, R/W stops with end of cylinder error which is a documented method for controling number of sectors R/W. This specific termination condition is no longer considered an error, but a successful end of operation. - Added support for SmallZ80 WW 5/1/2020: v5.4 - Added support for Dyno (based on work by Steve Garcia)