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From: math1i7@jetson.uh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Crashed and Ram 2
Message-ID: <6824.26d3eae3@jetson.uh.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 90 19:40:35 GMT
References: <25075@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: University of Houston
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In article <25075@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, frechett@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (Mac the Ripper/ / / /) writes:
> I do a ON-D and then press TAN and it does this:
> spd 19....          (.... can be a variety of numbers)
> DISP                (Then does a bunch of quick display tests)
> IROM <pause> OK
> IRAM <pause> OK
> RAM 1 00002          Moving quickly to
> RAM 2 00002 <slight pause> 
> FAIL 00180      Locks briefly and then repeats whole sequence.  
> 
> Now this may be perfectly normal but anytime some electronic device gives
> me any type of fail message I start to wonder.  Does anyone know what 
> this particular test is supposed to indicate?  Could this possible BUG in my

Ian,
   I don't have my regular users manuals with me, but I do  have James
Donnelly's book.  On page 98 it describes the test you executed as a
Looping Test.  I tried it myself and got the same thing you did.  I believe
what is failing is just one of the port tests that require the use of a
loopback device (which we don't have installed), or something similar.

As to your problem with the directory that you mentioned earlier, I had a
directory problem myself.  A few weeks ago I downloaded a game program 
and sent it from my Mac over to the HP.  On the Mac, I had a period in 
the file name.  It created a directory on the HP with exactly the same
name, even though a period is NOT a valid part of a file name.  I could
not figure out how to delete the directory (I ended up erasing all of 
user memory).  The worst part is that the backup I had made before 
contained the wierd directory.  I couldn't get it to restore anything...
   I was going to restore memory, then selectively backup my other
directories, then erase memory again.  But when I got to the part of the
restore procedure where you are supposed to put the name of the restore
file on the stack and execute RCL I got an error.  Instead of getting
"Backup HOMEDIR" in level 1, I got a bunch of garbage and could do
nothing with it.... Oh well!

Anyway, I don't think your fail message is serious in this case.

Gordon