Re: AlphaPC failsafe floppy

Gabor Berczi <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Apr 2022 19:28:30 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Apr 18, 2022, at 3:35 PM, Kevin P. Neal wrote:

>> Does anyone have the AlphaPC (LX164) failsafe floppy image? The one
>> which has the FAILSAFE file in the root dir.
>
> I haven't heard of this. I have a 164LX that I haven't used in a  
> long time.
> What does this failsafe image do? I probably want a copy as well.

It's some kind of a debugger loadable with the CF7 jumper enabled (my  
board developed some fault and doesn't boot from the ROM), I've  
forgotten the details and my floppy developed bad sectors. I have no  
idea where did I download it from.

The contents should look like this:

    49497 May  2  2010 failsafe*
     2295 Sep 24  1999 fwupdate.txt*
   163940 Aug 26  2016 lx164nt.rom*
   466944 Aug 26  2016 lx164srm.rom*
      464 Sep 24  1999 readme.1st*
    80715 Jul 20  1999 relnotes.pdf*
   259868 Jul 20  1999 relnotes.rtf*

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