frechett@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (Mac the Ripper/ / / /) (08/23/90)
I just posted a message about a directory that was in bad shape. Well, while playing with it, trying to figure out what happened, I decide to try a few things. The directory is called MUS I did a 'MUS' visit and it paused a sec and then flashed some garbage on the screen and turned itself off. Took a ON-C to get it back on. Next I tryed, a 'MUS' rcl Fine, nothing wrong, then I did an edit. It spewed stuff all over the place. shifted the whole screen up about 10 pixels and a about 5 to the right, then flashed little bits over various parts of the screen for 3 sec and then I got . Try to recover memory? Yes No I tryed yes and all I was left with was one directory with a scrambled name so I did a full system reset. Now, I would like to figure out what did this. I have had no binary files and the files in that directory where all 2 line programs haveing to do with musical notes. Nothing special. This led me to thinking about something that I saw when playing with ON-D. Unfortunately I don't know a lot about the diagnostic stuff. But I did notice that it will do a bunch of tests if you press the right keys. One of them (TAN) will do what appears to be a fairly complete check of the system I do a ON-D and then press TAN and it does this: spd 19.... (.... can be a variety of numbers) DISP (Then does a bunch of quick display tests) IROM <pause> OK IRAM <pause> OK RAM 1 00002 Moving quickly to RAM 2 00002 <slight pause> FAIL 00180 Locks briefly and then repeats whole sequence. Now this may be perfectly normal but anytime some electronic device gives me any type of fail message I start to wonder. Does anyone know what this particular test is supposed to indicate? Could this possible BUG in my machine be the cause of things like my directory problem? I am treading on thin air and would love some advice. I am pulling the batteries and am going to let it sit over night. I tryed it earlier for about 35 minutes and the clock was still correct when I put the batteries in. I want it DEAD. ;) Any insite would be appreciated. thanks. ian frechett@snoopy.colorado.edu
math1i7@jetson.uh.edu (08/24/90)
In article <25075@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, frechett@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (Mac the Ripper/ / / /) writes: > I do a ON-D and then press TAN and it does this: > spd 19.... (.... can be a variety of numbers) > DISP (Then does a bunch of quick display tests) > IROM <pause> OK > IRAM <pause> OK > RAM 1 00002 Moving quickly to > RAM 2 00002 <slight pause> > FAIL 00180 Locks briefly and then repeats whole sequence. > > Now this may be perfectly normal but anytime some electronic device gives > me any type of fail message I start to wonder. Does anyone know what > this particular test is supposed to indicate? Could this possible BUG in my Ian, I don't have my regular users manuals with me, but I do have James Donnelly's book. On page 98 it describes the test you executed as a Looping Test. I tried it myself and got the same thing you did. I believe what is failing is just one of the port tests that require the use of a loopback device (which we don't have installed), or something similar. As to your problem with the directory that you mentioned earlier, I had a directory problem myself. A few weeks ago I downloaded a game program and sent it from my Mac over to the HP. On the Mac, I had a period in the file name. It created a directory on the HP with exactly the same name, even though a period is NOT a valid part of a file name. I could not figure out how to delete the directory (I ended up erasing all of user memory). The worst part is that the backup I had made before contained the wierd directory. I couldn't get it to restore anything... I was going to restore memory, then selectively backup my other directories, then erase memory again. But when I got to the part of the restore procedure where you are supposed to put the name of the restore file on the stack and execute RCL I got an error. Instead of getting "Backup HOMEDIR" in level 1, I got a bunch of garbage and could do nothing with it.... Oh well! Anyway, I don't think your fail message is serious in this case. Gordon