Real-Time Clock/Cmos Ram Information; Real-Time Clock Information - IBM AT 5170 Technical Reference

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Real-Time Clock/CMOS RAM Information
The RT/CMOS RAM chip (Motorola MC146818) contains the
real-time clock and 64 bytes of CMOS RAM. The internal clock
circuitry uses 14 bytes of this RAM, and the rest is allocated to
configuration information. The following figure shows the CMOS
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RAM addresses.
Addresses
Description
00 - OD
*
Real-time clock information
DE
*
Diagnostic status byte
OF
*
Shutdown status byte
10
Diskette drive type byte - drives A and B
11
Reserved
12
Fixed disk type byte - types 1-14
13
Reserved
14
Equipment byte
15
Low base memory byte
16
High base memory byte
17
Low expansion memory byte
18
High expansion memory byte
19
Disk C extended byte
lA
Disk D extended byte
lB -
2D
Reserved
2E - 2F
2-byte CMOS checksum
30
*
Low expansion memory byte
31
*
High expansion memory byte
32
*
Date century byte
33
*
Information flags (set during power on)
34 - 3F
Reserved
CMOS RAM Address Map
*
These bytes are not included in the checksum calculation and
are not part of the configuration record.
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