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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: hardware manufacturer numbers
Message-ID: <34139@cup.portal.com>
Date: 21 Sep 90 10:27:44 GMT
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rbabel@babylon.UUCP (Ralph Babel) in <03643.AA03643@babylon.UUCP> writes:

	We (a group of Amiga developers) would like to write a small
	diagnostic utility that is able to identify all expansion
	devices in an Amiga. This would be a very useful tool for
	service centers and for developers debugging and testing
	their soft- and hardware on someone else's machine, since
	you would be able to identify boards without having to take
	apart that Amiga. Since the list of manufacturer numbers is
	- for some unknown reason - not publicly accessible and the
	list of product numbers is maintained by the manufacturers,
	we are trying to find them out ourselves.

Hmmm, I wrote one several years ago for the same purpose; received all of
about 3 responses if I recall.  You may have recently seen the sample output
in my posting about the Rejuvenator question concerning an A1000 with >8MB RAM
and a HD.

You're welcome to the programs if you want them:

CLI6> ls -l src:figlist
----ar-e- 88-09-02 04:49:16   12     5940 figdump
----ar--- 88-09-02 04:48:03    4     1753 figdump.c
----ar-e- 88-09-04 03:51:02   14     6964 figlist
----ar--- 88-09-05 01:53:10   29    14471 figlist.arc
----ar--- 88-09-04 03:50:35   10     4618 figlist.c
----ar--- 88-09-05 01:53:11    1      186 Makefile
----ar--- 88-09-05 01:52:18    3     1460 README
Dirs:0    Files:7    Blocks:73    Bytes:35392   
CLI6> 

An extract from the README:

FIGLIST and FIGDUMP are two programs that display the parameters of the
various auto-configuring expansion boards that one may plug into one's Amiga.

FIGLIST is the "production" program suitable for interrogating one's own
system as one would use, say, AVAIL or INFO.

FIGDUMP is the fact-finding program that displays all the information in each
board's configuration node.

As you've probably already surmised, I don't have a list of all manufacturers'
codes yet.

Please run FIGDUMP on your system and note the parameters, and annotate them
with a brief description of what board (and manufacturer) each listing
represents.

An easy way to produce a file containing the information is via output
redirection at the CLI per:

     CLI>  FIGDUMP > outfile

Send your results (via e-mail) to me at any of the network or BBS addresses
listed below, and an updated (hopefully final!) copy of FIGLIST will soon be
posted to the nets and BBS systems!

[...]

Yeah, sure, 3 responses in 2 years.  :-)

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]