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From: bgeer@javelin.es.com (Bob Geer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DTK computers
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.151726.4816@javelin.es.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 15:17:26 GMT
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Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
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david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) writes:
>I also like DTK very much-- but I have been into computers long enough to 
>decipher their badly translated Tiwaneese.  I always laugh about thier 
>error message, "Parity Error But Segment Dosent Found."  (I've been working 
>with DTK's long ehough to cause my share of these.)

I'm intrigued by your phrase "...cause my share of these" wrt the
error message -- does the message indicate a real parity error was
encountered, or is there some other condition that can cause it to
display?  I saw this error often when running my plain-jane Win3 &
SmartDrive installation in 386Enh mode on a DTK 386DX-20 w/ 5Megs.
Power-up ram test thinks all 5 megs are ok, tho I doubt the power-up
test is very thorough.  I deleted SmartDrive & haven't seen it since.

Would appreciate your posting any info you might have...Thanks.
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