[weblacky]

A Dallas that isn't dead dead should still work fine. The battery can be shot as long as the chip itself works.

Maybe try rerunning the POD mode commands without the IO9, then run enableall, update and reset from the PROM to see how the system reacts?

Now that's an IDEA!

KOKOBOI:
Where did you get this Dallas and do you still have your OLD dallas?  If your Dallas is FAKE...could this happen?  Kaigan is right, a dead Dallas battery on a working Dallas IC will work fine with power...use that as a troubleshooting guide.  I've personally NEVER seen a "dead" Dallas Chip (not working), only a dead battery...your L1 keeps trying to make alterations to NVRAM, I assume UNsuccessfully.  Perhaps this could be the reason? 

I know you said things were still a problem with your OLD L1 Dallas, but try the old one with NEW snaphat on IO9 anyway and try reset procedure again. See if there is a difference.

Let us Know.


ALSO, there was an experiment not long ago from jwhat that proved a Tezro will happily accept a BLANK L1 Dallas...but will NOT ACCEPT, NOR ERASE, a USED DALLAS! So there are two options there. Either use a dallas that was drilled with a battery and remove the battery to blank it, two use a programmer to "erase" the old NVRAM data through programming commands. If you got a USED dallas instead of the blank one, the Tezro would reject it with serial errors, though I didn't see that in your output you posted.