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Article #877Re: What is 'disk error 4'?
From: Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:10
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:10
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In article <BERNHARD.93Jan8195453@flipper.pvv.unit.no> bernhard@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen) writes:
I've got an A310 with RiscOS 3.10 and 2 floppies. One of them is a
panasonic 2 MB (unformatted) drive.
A few days ago it started giving me 'disk error 4 at 0/00000000' when
I try to open any floppy.
I tried checking out the PRM's, but to no avail.
That is, I tried checking out the RiscOS 2 PRM's.
^
Anyone has any idea?
Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen
bernhard@pvv.unit.no
I have later found out that there is something wrong with my drive, as
a new one of the same type works without problems.
But it would still be interesting to know what this error means, as I
intend to track down the fault and repair that drive. That's a lot
cheaper than buying a new one for about 400 NOK (about 40 pounds
sterling).
To anyone interested I can also say that all I had to do to get my
drive working as a 1MB drive is to change some micro-switches on the
back of the drive. I changed a switch from DC to MO and the drive
number to from 1 to 0. This drive is a standard PC drive.
Kjetil B.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!ugle.runit.sintef.no!bernhard From: bernhard@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen) Subject: Re: What is 'disk error 4'? In-Reply-To: bernhard@flipper.pvv.unit.no's message of 8 Jan 93 19:54:53 Message-ID: <BERNHARD.93Jan11041043@flipper.pvv.unit.no> Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator) Organization: The Norwegian Institute of Technology References: <BERNHARD.93Jan8195453@flipper.pvv.unit.no> Distribution: comp Date: 11 Jan 93 04:10:43 Lines: 31