mre@ukc.ac.uk (M.R.Ellis) (06/10/91)
Many thanks to all those who responded to my cry for help regarding my dying hard disc drive. Thanks must go to Stuart Payne at Acorn for supplying me with a complete list of hard disc error codes. As others might find this information useful or even vital, I am posting a copy here. Code Error 06 unit select signal has not been returned by drive 07 write fault signal from drive 08 drive not ready 09 seek complete has not been returned 10 data error has been detected by ECC (Error Correction Code) 13 a fatal ECC error has occurred in DATA area 16 sector ID has not been found 17 an ID area that begins with an improper address mark has been detected 18 the address mark in DATA has not been detected -- Michael Ellis, Darwin College, The University of Kent, Canterbury, England.