In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Rae writes: >Skip Withrow wrote: >> Well, my Austron 2100 seems to have bit the dust. >> >snip >> There are some software diagnostic routines in the box. The RAM test runs >> fine, but it appears that I get an error on the EPROM test. The test >> generates an E-20 error. The book states that if the EPROM test fails it >> will give an E-21, but nowhere do I find any hint as to what an E-20 error >> is. > >Skip, according to my manual, and I quote directly: "An output of >"E-20" indicates a properly functioning EPROM. An output of "E-21" >indicates that one or more of the EPROMS are bad." > >Page 6-12 > >As to why they bother to have an 'error' message for a good eprom, well, >there you have got me.
Because if you didn't, you still couldn't be sure if the EPROMS worked well enough to run the test. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
