AT&T PC 6300 - Error Messages; Diagnostics

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DIAGNOSTICS
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23. The Fixed Drive and NEC765 Floppy Tests are performed
sequentially. The disk drive is initialized, and the disk drive
test is performed. Track zero, side zero is read on all ready
disk drives in the particular hardware disk drive
configuration.
24. If a failure is detected on a ready drive, a "Floppy(A:) Not
Ready," "Floppy(B:) Not Ready," or "Fixed Disk Not Ready"
message is sent to the Display. Otherwise, you are informed
that the appropriate drive is Ready. This informs you that
the software recognizes that the drive is present from the
system configuration switches.
25. Control is transferred to the boot-strap loader that loads an
operating system from the ready floppy drive (A:) or from a
valid bootable partition on the fixed disk.
Error Messages
* The Display is used to report Pass/Fail messages regarding
i each test. The Resident Diagnostic error messages are listed
in Figure 4-1 along with a brief explanation of the message. For
n a list of the action(s) to be taken when one of these messages is
received, refer to Chapter 5, "MAINTENANCE."
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