#: 17978 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    26-Apr-93  19:17:19
Sb: MM/1 I/O Board
Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X)

Mark,

     I spoke to Gary Latham  today  and he said I should ship my I/O board to
you for repair.  I received it from IMS on 01/28/92 and had no problem
installing it.  However, the machine did (and still does) hang on boot with the
hard drive access LED on about half the time.  I called Paul about the problem
on 02/17/92  and told him that the WD33C93A SCSI chip had a #8 mask.  He said
the chip would probably have to be replaced.  He's been promising to ship me a
replacement I/O board  (and the hard drive I paid for) since that time.  I have
a Seagate ST138N-1 and a Quantum 105 in the MM/1 as well as the deluxe boot
ROM's.  Installing a boot on either drive and configuring it as /dd (/h0)
results in the fol- lowing message and results in a hung machine with the HD
LED on. Powering off and having a bootable floppy in /d0 on  power up is the
only way to get a successful boot (when it doesn't hang).

    OS-9/68K System Bootstrap
    Attempting to boot from Floppy.
    Floppy disk drive not ready.
    Attempting to boot from Hard Disk.
    Attempting to boot from Rom.
    NO kernel found.
    Boot failed, error status $00F6

The hard drives had been os9gen'ed and had valid boot files on them.

Where should I ship the board and approximately how much will it cost me to get
the chip replaced?

Thanks in advance, Ernest Withers, MM/1 #120848