BIOS Errors
Error
Number Macro Name
0 OK
-1 ERROR
-2 DRIVE
__
NOT
_
READY
-3 UNKNOWN
__
CMD
-4 CRC
_
ERROR
-5 BAD_REQUEST
-6 SEEK
_
ERROR
-7 UNKNOWN
_
MEDIA
-8 SECTOR
__
NOT
_
FOUND
-9 NO
__
PAPER
-10 WRITE
__
FAULT
-11 READ
__
FAULT
-12 GENERAL
__
MISHAP
-13 WRITE
__
PROTECT
-14 MEDIA
_
CHANGE
-15 UNKNOWN
_
DEVICE
Description
Action successful (no error)
General error
Device not ready, not
connected, or busy
The device doesn't know
how to respond to this
command
A soft error occured while
reading a sector
Device can't handle this
command, possibly because
of bad parameters
Drive could not seek to that
track
The boot sector of this disk
doesn't follow the ST
format
Sector couldn't be located
Printer out of paper
Write operation failed
Read operation failed
Reserved for future use
Write operation failed
because media was write-
only or write-protected
Write operation failed
because disk was changed
since last write operation
Operation requested for a
device that is unkown to
the BIOS
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