Date   : Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:25:59 +0100
From   : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: Master Compact Drive Cable

In article <4A59FC64.80903@...>, Rick Murray <rick@...>
writes

>I don't remember anything like that, thought that was the RISC OS range.

Yes, they can do that too.  The POST sequence will stop with a colour on
the screen and flash an error code on the drive LED if it fails the
initial hardware checks.  From memory a read screen is a RAM test
failure, etc.

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