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- From: James Vahn
- Subj: Cmos
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- The standard AT CMOS addresses from 00h to 3Fh are easy,
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- ; Read CMOS
- mov al,addr ; 'addr' ranges from 00h to 3Fh.
- out 70h,al ; wakes up the port.
- jmp $+2 ; a delay loop..
- in al,71h ; reads CMOS.
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- ; Write CMOS
- mov al,addr ; 'addr' ranges from 00h to 3Fh.
- out 70h,al ; wakes up the port.
- jmp $+2 ; a delay loop..
- out 71h, value ; Writes 'value' from 00h to FFh.
- ; note that 'addr' 10h to 20h are checksummed.
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- Some CMOS info...
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- addr contents
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- 00h Seconds
- 01h Second Alarm
- 02h Minutes
- 03h Minute Alarm
- 04h Hours
- 05h Hour Alarm
- 06h Day of the Week
- 07h Day of the Month
- 08h Month
- 09h Year
- 0Ah Status Register A
- 0Bh Status Register B
- 0Ch Status Register C
- 0Dh Status Register D
- 0Eh Diagnostic Status Byte
- 0Fh Shutdown Status Byte
- 10h Disk Drive Type for Drives A: and B:
- The drive-type bytes use bits 0:3 for the first
- drive and 4:7 for the other disk drive types.
- 00h no drive present
- 01h double sided 360k
- 02h high capacity (1.2 meg)
- 03h-0Fh reserved
- 11h (AT):Reserved (PS/2):drive type for hard disk C:
- 12h (PS/2):drive type for hard disk D:
- (AT, XT/286):hard disk type for drives C: and D:
- Format of drive-type entry for AT, XT/286:
- 0 number of cyls in drive (0-1023 allowed)
- 2 number of heads per drive (0-15 allowed)
- 3 starting reduced write compensation (not used on AT)
- 5 starting cylinder for write compensation
- 7 max. ECC data burst length, XT only
- 8 control byte
- Bit
- 7 disable disk-access retries
- 6 disable ECC retries
- 5-4 reserved, set to zero
- 3 more than 8 heads
- 2-0 drive option on XT (not used by AT)
- 9 timeout value for XT (not used by AT)
- 12 landing zone cylinder number
- 14 number of sectors per track (default 17, 0-17 allowed)
- 13h Reserved
- 14h Equipment Byte (corresponds to sw. 1 on PC and XT)
- 15h-16h Base Memory Size (low,high)
- 17h-18h Expansion Memory Size (low,high)
- 19h-20h Reserved
- (PS/2) POS information Model 50 (60 and 80 use a 2k
- CMOS RAM that is not accessible through software)
- 21h-2Dh Reserved (not checksumed)
- 2Eh-2Fh Checksum of Bytes 10 Through 20 (low,high)
- 30h-31h Exp. Memory Size as Det. by POST (low,high)
- 32h Date Century Byte
- 33h Information Flags (set during power-on)
- 34h-3Fh Reserved - Put Your Name Here.
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