Things are a little weird as I suggested in my previous post.

I have the CF card installed and if I use the ROM monitor in the Interak to access it through a series of Port commands, I can see what appears to be sensible data. If, however I use a piece of Z80 assembly language, I never see the CF card become ready.

I have tried my own code and two other variants found on the web.

Let me show you what I mean. This snippet came from Scott Baker’s website…

1069:         	WAITDRQ:
1069: F5      	        PUSH    AF
106A:         	WAITDRQLP:
106A: DB67    	        in 	A,(I7)
106C: E608    	        AND 	08H
106E: FE08    	        cp 	08H
1070: 20F8    	        JR	NZ, WAITDRQLP
1072: F1      	        POP 	AF
1073: C9      	        RET

To use this, I have set up the sector and all other parameters needed for a disk read. If I run this routine, it never finishes. breaking the code at 0x106C shows that the accumulator is either 0x40 or 0x41. Which means “Drive ready” or “Drive ready + error”.

However, if I use “P 67” at the monitor, I get “0x58” which means “Drive ready + Drive seek complete + Data request ready”.

I can run from 0x106A to 106C again and again I see 0x40 or 0x41 in the accumulator. If I use “P67” again, again I see 0x58.

Can anyone see the deliberate mistake because I can’t 🙁