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- From: ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples)
- Subject: POST/BIOS Error 601
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.081019.14712@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Summary: What does the "601" error mean?
- Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:10:19 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- Hi, I hope this is an appropriate group for this post. Please help if you can.
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- My LOGI 88-XT has lost its floppy disk drives:
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- On bootup, I simply get the cryptic message "601" after the POST memory test.
- The machine then politely requests "Press F1 to continue". When you press F1
- it continues to boot from drive C:, but there is no sign of "testing" the
- floppy drives as part of the boot process. The drives remain dead. If you
- try to read a directory or otherwise use one of them, you get the message
- "Drive not ready...". There is no indication that the machine attempted to
- access the drive in question - i.e. no noise and no drive light on.
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- Does anyone know what the error "601" indicates? I assume it is a BIOS
- error message of some sort, relating to the failed FDDs. Is it telling me
- anything useful, or is it just some sort of general statement of failure?
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- The system is an XT using the NEC V20 chip.
- BIOS is Award ("Licensed") [What other sort do they sell? :)]
- 640k memory
- Multi-I/O Card for FDDs, clock, parallel printer port, etc.
- HDD Miniscribe Model 8425 with RLL controller to give 30 meg drive
- FDDs A: is 5 1/4" 360k
- D: is 3 1/2" 720k (configured as an external drive to get 720k)
- [B: is physically the 3 1/2" drive, but machine thinks it is 360k].
- EGA Monitor
- XT/AT Keyboard [which occasionally gives problems too - error "301"]
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- Any help gratefully received. Thank you, and Happy New Year.
-
- Ian S.
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