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- From: mowgli@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mowgli C Assor)
- Subject: Fun With The Pro350....
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.001600.17496@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Summary: Wierd Errors, Etc.
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- Organization: The Ohio State University
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:16:00 GMT
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- I've got the disks to P/OS version 2.0 now, & I was playing with them the
- other day. There seem to be a couple of problems. For example, when I attempt
- to boot off of any of them, I get the error :
-
- 0 0 0 4 0 0
- 0 0 0 0 0 7 (The "Software Only Error")
-
- I also acquired a couple of hard drives, & only found one hard drive that
- would work. With the other hard drive, whenever I try to boot the computer,
- I get the error :
-
- -----
- |0 1| 0 3 7 7 (Errors in boxes are inverted)
- --------------
- |1 7 7 7 7 6|
- --------------
-
- This one the book says is a hardware error of some sort. It seems to be
- the drive though, because both controllers I have bombed with this error.
-
- Is there any documentation on how to decode these nice little error
- numbers into something that translates to human-speak?
-
- Also, while the hard disk stuff was loaded, I attempted to go through the
- "tutorial". I got most of the way through chapter 0.1 (?) when all of a
- sudden the machine began giving me these "File MMM001 not found" error
- messages, & I couldn't do anything (Exit/Resume didn't do anything, Do/Help
- gave me these file errors). I had to turn the machine off. Could this point
- to the floppies I got being damaged?
-
- I looked at them with the DEC file commands, & other than the fact there
- weren't too many files there, I didn't get any errors. Is there any way to
- verify a disk?
-
- And, how long should it take DECUS to process my application? I sent it a
- couple of weeks ago, & haven't heard anything, so I'm wondering how long I
- should wait before bothering them. ;)
-
- Well, that's it for now.
- Thanks, <Mowgli>
- --
- Address: mowgli@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mowgli Assor in quasi-real life)
- "Too many lonely hearts in the real world. Too many lonely nights in the real
- world. Too many fools who don't think twice, too many ways to pay the price.
- Don't wanna live my life in the real world." - The Alan Parsons Project
-