[Techtoolslist] 68000 pod question

[Tony Jones]

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Tony Jones <tony at tonyjones.com> wrote:

> Also, specific to the 9100[FT] does anyone know how to obtain the
> 68000 pod software version. It's not specified in version 1 of the
> manual,  it's "4.36 Software Revision Level - Address F000 0012" in
> version 2 of the manual.   I get "invalid address" when attempting to
> read/write any of these pod special addresses (outside normal address
> range).

adding a bit more info, I saw on the ukvac thread a comment about
needing to write BF to F000 0028 (clearing bit 6, self-test) ,  which
is "4-46 Error Summary Mask" in v2 of the manual (4-42 in v1).    I
noticed it is also possible to disable reporting of illegal address
errors by clearing bit 5.   So I was looking for a pod-specific setup
in the 9100 Supplemental Pod Information manual that allowed access to
the error summary mask (since trying to directly write to it generates
an illegal address error, chicken&egg).   I can't however, see one,
there is "ERR_MASK CTRL_DR nnnn" and "ERR_MASK FORCING nnnn" which
correspond to F000 002A (4-47 or 4-43)  and F000 002C (4-48 or 4-44).