Sage II - Hard I;O Errors; Soft Errors; Data Errors; Scratch Diskettes

SAGE
II SERVICE
MANUAL
[1.0]
CYCLER TEST
TEST ERROR
DISPLAY
(cont)
convenience.
l{...IIev
test
A11 error
counters
are
cleared.
K.
. .Keep
data
on f lle
A
new
test ls
started.
Thls
optlon
asks
for
a
data dlsk
to
be
inserted
into
drive
ll4.
It
looks
for
a ftle
called
t'CYC.DATA.textrf
and reads
it
ln
if tt
exlsts'
If
not
tt
creates lt.
The
current data
ls
added
to
the
fl1e
and
the ftle
ls
saved.
The flle
can be
prlnted
wlth
a
program
called
DATAPAGE
which
slmply
lists
the ftle, paging
at
each
occurance
of
'llllllll'
. The
data results
of
each
ttkeep"
takes
about
18 blocks.
This
enables
the results
of
many tests
to
be kept
together
on
one diskette.
If readlng
in
the file
becomes
very
slow,
rename
the file
so
that a new
one w111
be started.
C.
. .ContLnue
test
The
test
ls
continued
starting
wlth
the
next
test
after
the
one
that
was
l-nterrupted.
The
memory
test
always
completes
unless an
error was
found.
The
disk
tests
always
complete
the
Read
or write
functlon
they were
in.
E...Exlt
Cycler
The
cycler
test flnishes
and
the test
menu
rs
shown.
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