Date   : Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:23:33 +0000
From   : splodge@... (Richard Gellman)
Subject: Grrr.....annoying master cmos ram

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
>> Message-ID: <38370.82.71.113.222.1163085016.squirrel@...
>>     
>  
> "Richard Gellman" <splodge@...> wrote:
>   
>> Curiously, the Ahkter floppy disc user guide says of "Bad Sum":
>> "We have never seen the error occur, and don't believe it exists."
>> It is in fact a DFS error, but as the user guide implies, its never seen
>>     
>  
> No, it's an ADFS (as Sprow pointed out) and an ANFS error. It will
>   
While I've no doubt that ADFS/ANFS contain the error, it is (at least
according to a somewhat insistent Akhter manual that has no concept of
ADFS, except maybe in the manual author's mind) apparently present in
DFS (see attachment or http://www.starfleet-net.co.uk/dfs.jpg ).

Perhaps this why the comment is "I don't believe it exists" ?

-- Richard


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