OK, seems I had an intermittant loss of connectivity, got it to read the bank data for A and this is the error report in terminal:
Exception in thread Thread-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/ui/common.py", line 261, in run
job.execute(self.radio)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/ui/bankedit.py", line 138, in execute
mappings = self.__model.get_memory_mappings(mem)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/drivers/icf.py", line 544, in get_memory_mappings
index = self._radio._get_bank(memory.number)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/drivers/ic9x.py", line 83, in _get_bank
return mem._bank
AttributeError: Memory instance has no attribute '_bank'
799 is the last valid memory in the 92AD 'A' band so something in memory mappings maybe?