From: Steven downing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>No time for Net acces at work today, and SLUG is slow so I
>thought I throw out this newbie question.
>When I boot my RH6.2 machine it gets to the floppy drive then
>says something to the effect of:
>
>Floppy is 1.44M
>uhhh.. NMI recieved. <something about memory chip problems>
>FDC is National <something or another>
>
>So what are/is NMI, and why won't my floppy drive work now?
>The machine is a IBM P200, and the RAM seems to work fine once
>you get into Linux.
>A quick look at the HOW-TO's last night offered no help.
>Don't spend too much time on this, I haven't yet!!
NMI on a PC is 'Parity Error'. You can get a parity error from a faulty DMA
transfer (or a faulty memory chip) - got heaps of these in Uni when we were
making a sound card from scratch. Usually means the FDD has gone a bit
funny.
John Wiltshire
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