Sage II - Pattern 1

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Ir
SERVTCE
I'{ANUAL
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CYCLER
TEST
FLOPPY
DRIVE
TEST
(cont)
IIARD
TlO
ERRORS:
0
I\b error.
-1
Floppy
controller
would
not
respond.
-2
Floppy
controller
returned
invalid
command
error.
-3
Recalibrate
or
seek Failure
(equipment
check).
-4
No
diskette
(as
a
result
of read/wrlte
tlmeout.
-5
Mlsslng
address
mark reported
by
floppy
controller.
-6
No
data
Found
reported
by floppy
controller.
-7
CRC
Error
reported
by floppy
controller.
-8
End
of
cyllnder
reported
by floppy
controller.
-9
End
of
cyllnder
reported
by floppy
controller.
-10
Wrlte
protect
Vlolatlon
-11
Mdress
out
of range
-L2
wrong
cyllnder
reported
by floppy
controller
-13
currently
unused
-14
lllegal
device
number
-15
Illegal
request.
SOFT
ERRORS:
The
BI0S
lnterrupt
driven
drlver
returns
the
ntrmber
of
soft
errors
to
the
test
program.
Soft errors
are
tracked
by the
Head
and
cylinder
that
they
occur
orr
A
large
number
of soft
errors
nay lndlcate
that
the
drlve
ls
out
of
allgnment
or that
lmperfect
dlsket;es
are
bel^^g
used
for
the
test.
It
ls
especially
lmportant
that
good
medla be
used
on the
80
track
drl-ves.
DATA
ERRORS:
Data ls
NOT
checked for
cyllnders
that
had
hard
or
soft errors.
A data
error
w111
only
be
shown
lf
the
data
wrltten
does
not
match
the
data
read
and no
hard
or soft
errors
were
reported.
SCRATCTT
DISKETTES:
It
is
lmportant
that
the
scratch
dlskettes
be
formatted
on
a
KNOWN
working
system.
DO
NOT format
the
scratch
diskette
on the
system
belng
tested.
Ihls
nay reduce
the
nunber
of
errors
f ound
lf
the
drlve
is
o,ti
of allgnment
but wtll
cause
problens
as
the
user w111
not
be
able
to
read
updates
from
SAGE or
dlskettes
from
other
systems.
If allgrtrnent
ls
I{Tong
use
the
ALIGN
progran
and an
certtf
led
allgnment
dlskette
to
correct
the
problem.
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