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From: DWN2@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Error EC81 ... (was BusinessLand flame)
Message-ID: <91065.003607DWN2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 05:36:07 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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NextAnswers hardware.442 says: "A DMA request is sometimes "jammed" in the
internal disk bus at power-on.  You can ignore the EC81 message and continue
normally; the error code does not impair system performance.  This problem
has been observed once in a great while on a few machines.  Typing [Alt][Cmd]-*
is the easiest way to clear it.  If the problem persists, call the NeXT
service department.

For a list of all the ROM error codes, see NextAnswer hardware.475, or
/NextLibrary/Documentation/NeXT/SysRefMan/17_ROM.wn."

-Dave