Curt Vendel Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 This file is a little rough, I just converted it off of a Vax, and haven't cleaned it up yet, also, by sheer luck, chance or fate... while persuing a DEC Vax 11/750 out in Oregon, I received the monster beast which is currently in now the Atarimusem's 3rd storage unit (now looking for a small warehouse) the serial # of the CPU is a match for one of the Atari 11/750's owned in the Home Computer Division... I was astounded to have located what appears to be "Vulcan" a Vax 11/750 owned by Atari. I should be operational by Mid December if all goes well, in the meantime here is the 1450XLD Disk Drive handler source -- W W OOO RRRR DDDD 1 1 W W O O R R D D 11 11 W W O O R R D D 1 1 1 1 W W W O O RRRR D D ----- 1 1 W W W O O R R D D 1 1 WW WW O O R R D D 1 1 W W OOO R R DDDD 11111 11111 U U SSS EEEEE RRRR DDDD OOO CCC U U S S E R R D D O O C C U U S E R R D D O O C U U SSS EEEE RRRR D D O O C U U S E R R D D O O C U U S S E R R D D O O C C UUU SSS EEEEE R R DDDD OOO CCC 3333 000 000 / 1 1 000 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 / 11 11 0 0 11 11 3 0 00 0 00 / 1 1 1 1 0 00 1 1 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 / 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 00 0 00 0 / 1 1 00 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 / 1 1 0 0 1 1 3333 000 000 / 11111 11111 000 11111 11111 WPSSPL Version 2.8.5 Spooling device DRB1: June 19, 1984 02:25 PM Atari, Inc. Printing document: (11) INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE SPEC prelim Copies: 1 Delete after printing: No Table driven file: DRA0:[376,10]WPSLP.DEF ATARI 1450XL HOME COMPUTER INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE SPECIFICATION ====== NOTICE ====== TO ALL PERSONS RECEIVING THIS DOCUMENT ------------------------ Confidential Information ------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reproduction of this document is forbidden without the specific written permission of ATARI, INC., Sunnyvale, CA 94086. No right to reproduce this document, or the subject matter thereof, is granted unless by written agreement with, or written permission from the Corporation. ------------------------------------------------------------------ C062063 - Preliminary INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary T_A_B_L_E_ O_F_ C_O_N_T_E_N_T_S_ 1.0.0.0 INTRODUCTION 2.0.0.0 RELEVANT DOCUMENTS 3.0.0.0 OVERVIEW 4.0.0.0 PERFORMANCE 5.0.0.0 INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS 6.0.0.0 SOFTWARE EXTERNAL REFERENCE SPECIFICATION F_I_G_U_R_E_S_: 5.01 - ATARI 1450XL Home Computer (3/4 view) 5.02 - Integral Disk Drive Mechanical Details C062063 - Preliminary INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary 1.0.0.0 I_N_T_R_O_D_U_C_T_I_O_N_ This document details the engineering design specifications for the integral Disk Drive of the ATARI 1450XL Home Compu- ter. It is the major information transfer document for the transfer of information from the Hardware and Software Devel- opment groups to Manufacturing, Design Assurance, and Appli- cations Software organizations. It covers all aspects of the Disk Drive either directly or indirectly by reference to ap- plicable documents. 2.0.0.0 R_E_L_E_V_A_N_T_ D_O_C_U_M_E_N_T_S_ ATARI 600XL Home Computer Product Specification - C061611 ATARI Single Density Floppy Diskette Specification - C016884 ATARI Double Density Floppy Diskette Specification - C016890 ATARI 1050 Disk Drive Specification - C061272 ATARI Personal Computer System, Operating System User's Manual Tandon TM50-2 Product Specification and User's Manual Parallel Bus Interface (PBI) Specification - C061902 ATARI SIO Specification - 81-PS-0602 3.0.0.0 O_V_E_R_V_I_E_W_ The ATARI 1450XL Home Computer Integral Disk Drive shall be a rotating disk memory designed for random access data entry, storage, and retrieval applications. Typical applications include storing programs and data, and loading programs into the system. The drive shall be capable of reading both sides of a disk- ette in single density or double density formats, at the user's discretion. C062063 - Page 1 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary 4.0.0.0 P_E_R_F_O_R_M_A_N_C_E_ 4.1.0.0 E_n_v_i_r_o_n_m_e_n_t_a_l_ 4.1.1.0 Temperature Operating (media dependent) -- 10 degrees C to 46 degrees C (50 degrees F to 115 degrees F) Non operating -- -40 degrees C to 71 degrees C (-40 degrees F to 160 degrees 4.1.2.0 Relative Humidity Operating, noncondensing (media dependent) -- 20 to 80 percent Nonoperating, noncondensing -- 5 to 85 percent 4.1.3.0 Altitude 152.4-meters (500-feet) below sea level to 15,240-meters (50,000-feet) above sea level. 4.2.0.0 E_n_d_u_r_a_n_c_e_ L_e_v_e_l_s_ The Integral Disk Drive shall use ANSI compatible 5-1/4 inch diskettes with a media life (for reference only) of 4x10^6 passes per track. The drive shall format disk- ettes with 40 tracks, single density, and 80 tracks, double density. There shall be a track spacing of 0.529-millimeters (20.8 milinches). The drive head life shall be 20,000 media contact hours. The disk rotational speed shall be 288 RPM (plus or minus 1.5 percent). There shall be an average rotational latency of 104 milliseconds, with an instantaneous speed variation (ISV) of plus or minus 3-percent. The motor start time shall be 1-second, maximum. The seek time, track to track, shall be 20 milliseconds. The head settling time shall be 20 milliseconds, with an average track access time (including head settling time) of 287-milliseconds <?>. The recording mode is FM (Single Density) and MFM (double density). The data transfer rate shall be 250,000 bits per second, double density. Flux reversals per inch (FRPI) on the inside track shall be 5,535 for side 0 and 5,877 for side 1. C062063 - Page 2 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary The unformatted recording capacity shall be 520,800 bytes per diskette. 4.3.0.0 R_e_l_i_a_b_i_l_i_t_y_ 4.3.1.0 Error Rates Exclusive of external sources, such as electronic equipment, and defective or contaminated diskettes. Recoverable soft errors -- 1/10^9 bits Recoverable hard errors -- 1/10^12 bits Seek Errors -- 1/10^6 seeks 4.3.2.0 MTBF and MTTR MTBF -- 8,000 hours, 25 percent duty cycle MTTR -- 30 minutes (These are Tandon's figures) 4.4.0.0 C_o_m_p_l_i_a_n_c_e_s_ UL for power???? UL for fan???? 4.5.0.0 E_l_e_c_t_r_i_c_a_l_ P_e_r_f_o_r_m_a_n_c_e_ +12-volts DC plus or minus 0.6-volt, 1.3 amperes, maximum, surge for 50 mulliseconds, 800 milliamps average. +5 volts DC plus or minus 0.25 volt at 800 milliamps, maximum, with less than 100 millivolts peak-to-peak ripple. C062063 - Page 3 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary 5.0.0.0 I_N_T_E_R_F_A_C_E_ S_P_E_C_I_F_I_C_A_T_I_O_N_S_ 5.1.0.0 P_a_c_k_a_g_e_ a_n_d_ A_p_p_e_a_r_a_n_c_e_ The ATARI 1450XL Home Computer Integral Disk Drive will be a low profile that will be installed at the top right of the computer console (see Figure 5.01). An activity indicator <LED?>, located on the front panel is to be automatically illuminated when the drive is selected. User access for diskette loading will be via an horizon- tal slot at the front of the drive. The diskette will be locked into place by a front latch. 5.2.0.0 E_l_e_c_t_r_o_m_e_c_h_a_n_i_c_a_l_ S_u_b_a_s_s_e_m_b_l_i_e_s_ 5.2.1.0 Functional Description When the user inserts a diskette into the drive, it will be held in place by aluminum guard rails. The diskette will slide into the drive until a back stop is encountered, which will latch the ejection mechanism. Closing the front latch will activate the cone clamping mechanism, which will accurately center the diskette and clamp it into place. The drive hub is held to a constant rotation of 288-RPM by a servo-controlled DC motor. The heads will remain in contact with the diskette until the front latch is opened. The drive heads will be positioned over the desired track by means of a 4-phase stepper motor-band assembly and associated electronics. The positioner will use a one step rotation to cause a one track linear movement. When the front latch is opened, the cone clamping mechanism will raise, allowing for the free exit of the diskette. The eject mechanism will then unlatch and force the diskette part way out of the drive. 5.2.2.0 Mechanical Details Refer to Figure 5.02. The drive will have a Track 0 sensor, which will detect when the Head-Carriage Assembly is posi- tioned Track 0 on the diskette. It will also have a write protect sensor which will disable the write electronics when a tab covers the write protect notch on the diskette. C062063 - Page 4 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary The drive spindle will be belt driven by a DC motor which will contain an integral tachometer. The servo control circuit and tachometer will control the speed of the spindle. The Read/Write Head Assembly will be positioned by a split band positioner mounted to a stepper motor. The read/write heads will be glass bonded ferrite ceramic structures and have a life expectancy of 20,000 operating hours. The electronic components will be mounted on two printed circuit boards. The logic circuit board is to be mounted above the chassis. The motor control circuit board is to be mounted on the bottom of the chassis. 5.2.3.0 Power and Interface Signals Power and the interface signals are to be routed through two 23-pin connectors which will plug di- rectly into the CPU board. The connectors will mate directly with the circuit board connectors at the rear of the drive. The first connector is for Drive 1; the second is for Drive 2. The pin assignments are as follows: 1-4 Write Protect 5-7 Diskette Enable 8-11 Track 0 Sensor 12-17 Stepper Motor Control 18-21 Spindle Motor Control 22-23 Disk Activity Light 5.2.4.0 Cooling Fan A ??-inch cooling fan shall be placed on the rear of the disk drive. It shall draw +12-volts, 0.15-a from <?????>. C062063 - Page 5 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary FIGURE 5.01 -- ATARI 1450XL Home Computer (3/4 view) C062063 - Page 6 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary FIGURE 5.02 -- Integral Disk Drive Mechanical Details C062063 - Page 7 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary 6.0.0.0 S_O_F_T_W_A_R_E_ E_X_T_E_R_N_A_L_ R_E_F_E_R_E_N_C_E_ S_P_E_C_I_F_I_C_A_T_I_O_N_ This section is a copy of the SOFTWARE EXTERNAL REFERENCE SPECIFICATION prepared by HCD Software Engineering, dated 5/20/83. It has been renumbered from the original to match this document. References to the computer have also been changed for consistency throughout this document. 6.1.0.0 Purpose 6.1.1.0 Introduction and Product Description This document is the reference specification for the software interfaces to be used by applications programs and the operating system to control the Integral Disk(s). The Integral Disk Drive is a built-in peripheral which connects to the ATARI 1450XL Home Computer by means of the Parallel Bus Interface (PBI). The integral disk drive is capable of operating in two "size" modes. For the sake of clarity within this document, these modes will be referred to as "large" and "small" mode. The "large" mode addres- ses the disk as a single logical entity, with two physical sides. The "small" mode addresses the disk as two logical entities, one per physical side of the disk. The Integral Disk Handler is responsible for all physical accesses to the integral disk. The unit of data transfer for this handler is a single disk sector containing 128 bytes of data. 6.1.2.0 Consumer Profile The user of this product will be the disk handler contained within the operating system and within DOS/FMS. 6.1.3.0 Interface With Other Products The Integral Disk Handler is an input/output peri- pheral, performing no actions without instructions from an applications program. Applications programs will access the Integral Disk Driver indirectly through CIO or through PIO/SIO calls. The Integral Disk Drive uses COMMAND BYTE $B1 and $B2 for internal use. These COMMAND BYTES may not be used by any other drivers. C062063 - Page 8 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary 6.1.4.0 Family of Products The Integral Disk Handler belongs to the Systems family of products. 6.2.0.0 Applicable Documents "'SURELY' External Reference Specification, Revision 2", Scott Scheiman, Rick Nordin, 4/8/83 "1050 Disk Drive Product Specification", George Nishiura, Atari Part Number CO61272,dated 3/8/83. "ATARI Personal Computer System, Operating System, User's Manual", November 1980. 6.3.0.0 Requirements 6.3.1.0 Interfaces 6.3.1.1 Physical Requirements The Integral Disk Driver shall masked into 2K bytes ($D800-$DFFF) on the 1450 CPU board. On power-up, the 1450 will apply power to the disk drive(s) only if the door to drive 1 is open. The disk driver shall display an infor- mational message (wording TBD) to the user di- recting him to insert a disk in drive 1 and shut the door. Upon closing the door to drive 1, the driver shall perform a disk boot. 6.3.1.2 Logical Requirements The driver shall be switched into the floating point address space of the Operating System, when required by the Operating System. The driver shall use RAM for input and output buffers, variables for communicating with the user, and internal variables. Internal vari- ables shall be in TBD, permanently allocated in the OS database for use by this driver. User communication variables shall be the system DCB. The default mode of the integral disk shall be "small" mode - two logical sides per disk. All parallel devices in the system must be in the same mode. The SET MODE command shall be used to change the mode and all parallel devices C062063 - Page 9 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary shall change mode at the same time. 6.3.1.3 Man/Machine Interface During a COLD START, the driver will initial- ize the disks to "small" mode. During WARM START, the driver will determine the current mode and will maintain that mode. 6.3.2.0 Functional Description 6.3.2.1 Device Control Block Communication between the Integral Disk Driver and the disk handler shall be by means of the system DCB. The DCB is be 12 bytes long. The disk handler must supply the required DCB parameters and execute a JSR to SIOV [$E459]. DEVICE ID (DDEVIC [$0300]) - Device ID for the disk drives shall be $31. This parameter is set up by the handler. DEVICE NUMBER (DUNIT [$0301]) - Disk drive number to be accessed (1-. This parameter is set up by the handler. COMMAND BYTE (DCOMND [$0302]) - Disk drive command to be performed (see para. 3.2.2). This parameter is set up by the handler, or by the user, if the user calls PIO/SIO directly. STATUS BYTE (DSTATS [$0303]) - Indicates to PIO what to do after the command frame is sent and acknowledged. This parameter is set up by the handler. Valid codes are: $00 - No data transfer is associated with the operation $40 - A data frame is expected from the disk $80 - A data frame is to be sent to the device. - Indicates status of the command upon return to the handler. This parameter is set up by the driver. Possible status codes are: $01 - Operation complete, no errors $80 - BREAK key abort $8A - Device timeout $8B - Device NAK $8F - Checksum error $90 - Device done error C062063 - Page 10 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary BUFFER ADDRESS (DBUFLO [$0304] & DBUFHI [$0305]) - Two byte pointer containing the address of the source or destination of the disk sector or status data. These parameters are set up by the handler. DISK TIMEOUT VALUE (DTIMLO [$0306]) - Timeout value, in whole seconds, used by the driver. This parameter is supplied by the handler. BYTE COUNT (DBYTLO [$0308] & DBYTHI [$0309]) - Number of bytes transferred to or from the disk as a result of the most recent command. These parameters are set up by the handler. SECTOR NUMBER (DAUX1 [$030A] & DAUX2 [$030B]) - Disk sector number to be read or to be written. These parameters are set up by the handler and contain the least significant byte in DAUX1 and the most significant byte in DAUX2. The range of sector numbers shall be 1-720, single density; 1-1040, double density, "small" mode; or 1-2080, double density, "large" mode. 6.3.2.2 Standard Disk Driver Commands GET SECTOR The driver shall read the specified sec- tor into the user's buffer and return the operation status in the status byte of the DCB. The DCB parameters required to be set by the handler prior to calling SIOV are: DEVICE ID = $31 DEVICE NUMBER = Disk drive number (1- COMMAND BYTE = $52 STATUS BYTE = $40 BUFFER ADDRESS = Pointer to the handler's 128 byte buffer SECTOR NUMBER = Sector number to be read. The only parameter of interest to the handler, upon return, shall be the STATUS BYTE. PUT SECTOR (NO VERIFY) The driver shall write the specified sec- C062063 - Page 11 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary tor from the handler buffer and return the operation status in the STATUS BYTE of the DCB. The DCB parameters required to be set by the handler prior to calling the SIOV are: DEVICE ID = $31 DEVICE NUMBER = Disk drive number (1- COMMAND BYTE = $50 STATUS BYTE = $80 BUFFER ADDRESS = Pointer to the handler's 128 byte buffer SECTOR NUMBER = Sector number to be written. The only parameter of interest to the handler, upon return, shall be the STATUS BYTE. PUT SECTOR WITH VERIFY The driver shall write the specified sector from the handler buffer, read the sector after writing, and return the operation status in the STATUS BYTE of the DCB. The DCB parameters required to be set by the handler prior to calling SIOV are: DEVICE ID = $31 DEVICE NUMBER = Disk drive number (1- COMMAND BYTE = $57 STATUS BYTE = $80 BUFFER ADDRESS = Pointer to the handler's 128 byte buffer SECTOR NUMBER = Sector number to be written. Several DCB parameters will be altered upon return from a PUT SECTOR WITH VERIFY command. The only parameter of interest to the handler will be the STATUS BYTE. STATUS REQUEST The driver shall obtain a four byte sta- tus from the disk controller and put the status in the handler supplied buffer (system location DVSTAT [$02EA]). C062063 - Page 12 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary The DCB parameters required to be set by the handler prior to calling SIOV are: DEVICE ID = $31 DEVICE NUMBER = Disk drive number (1- COMMAND BYTE = $53 STATUS BYTE = $40 BUFFER ADDRESS = $02ea The STATUS BYTE shall be the only DCB parameter of interest to the handler, upon return. The four byte status format shall be: BYTE 1 - DISK STATUS BIT 0 = 1 indicates an invalid command frame was receiv- ed. BIT 1 = 1 indicates an invalid data frame was received. BIT 2 = 1 indicates an opera- tion was unsuccessful. BIT 3 = 1 indicates the disk- ette is write protected. BIT 4 = 1 indicates drive is active. BITS 5-7 = 100 indicates single density format. BITS 5-7 = 101 indicates double density format. BYTE 2 - DISK CONTROLLER HARDWARE STATUS This byte shall contain the in- verted value of the disk con- troller hardware status regis- ter as of the last operation. The hardware status value for no errors shall be $FF. A zero in any bit position shall indi- cate an error. The definition of the bit positions shall be: BIT 0 = 0 indicates device busy BIT 1 = 0 indicates data re- quest is full on a read operation. BIT 2 = 0 indicates data lost BIT 3 = 0 indicates CRC error C062063 - Page 13 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary BIT 4 = 0 indicates desired track and sector not found BIT 5 = 0 indicates record type/write fault BIT 6 NOT USED BIT 7 = 0 indicates device not ready (door open) BYTES 3 & 4 - TIMEOUT These bytes shall contain a disk controller provided maxi- mum timeout value, in seconds, for the worst case command. The worst case operation is for a disk format command (time TBD seconds). Byte 4 is not used, currently. FORMAT DISK The driver shall cause the controller to format the entire disk and to verify the formatting, by reading each sector. The DCB parameters required to be set by the handler prior to calling SIOV are: DEVICE ID = $31 DEVICE NUMBER = Disk drive number (1-4) COMMAND BYTE = $21 or $22 (for sin- gle or double density, respec- tively) STATUS BYTE = $40 BUFFER ADDRESS = Pointer to the user's 128 byte buffer. Fol- lowing the FORMAT DISK command, the buffer shall contain 128 bytes of $FF if all sectors are good, or $00 if any bad sector was found. The only parameter of interest to the handler, upon return, shall be the STATUS BYTE. SET MODE The driver shall set the mode to the de- sired mode, as specified in the COMMAND BYTE and return the operation status in the STATUS BYTE of the DCB. C062063 - Page 14 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary The DCB parameters required to be set by the handler prior to calling the driver are: DEVICE ID = $31 COMMAND BYTE = $01 or $02, for "large" or "small" mode, res- pectively STATUS BYTE = $00 The only parameter of interest to the handler, upon return, shall be the STATUS BYTE. DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC IN The driver shall command the disk con- troller to perform a diagnostic program. The functions and format shall be TBD. The DCB parameters required to be set by the handler, prior to calling the driver are: DEVICE ID = $31 DEVICE NUMBER = Disk drive number (1- COMMAND BYTE = $23 STATUS BYTE = $80 BUFFER ADDRESS = Pointer to the 128 bytes of diagnostic data, set up by the handler. The only parameter of interest to the handler, following the DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC IN command, shall be the STATUS BYTE. DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC OUT The driver shall obtain the results of the previous DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC IN command. If no previous DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC IN com- mand had been performed, this command shall obtain the data retained from the last disk operation. The DCB parameters required to be set by the handler, prior to calling the driver, are: DEVICE ID = $31 DEVICE NUMBER = Disk drive number (1- COMMAND BYTE = $24 C062063 - Page 15 INTEGRAL DISK DRIVE Specification - Preliminary STATUS BYTE = $40 BUFFER ADDRESS = Pointer to the handler's 128 byte buffer The only DCB parameter of interest to the handler, upon completion of the DRIVE DI- AGNOSTIC OUT command shall be the STATUS BYTE. The format and meaning of the re- turned buffer shall be TBD. 6.3.3.0 Performance Requirements None specified. 6.3.4.0 Design Requirements The Integral Disk Driver shall be contained within an 8K byte ROM, at address $1800-$1FFF. 6.3.5.0 Packaging Requirements None specified. 6.3.6.0 Special Requirements None specified. C062063 - Page 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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