North Star DIMENSION Service Manual page 190

Error Screens and Codes
Error Screens
Types of
There are four types of error screens that may
Error Screens
appear during diskette and fixed disk drive tests.
They are:
o Reading errors
o Writing errors
o Soft errors
o Hard errors
Reading
The following display is an example of an error
Errors
message that appears if an error occurs during a
read cycle of either a diskette of fixed disk
test.
READING
Writing
Errors
Error code: xxxx
Error description:
Iteration: xxxx
Logical record number: xxxx
Number of bad bytes: xxxx
Expected data: xxxx
Actual data: xxxx
Sector location: xxxx
The following display is an example of an error
message that appears if an error occurs during a
write cycle of either a diskette of fixed disk
test.
WRITING
Error code: xxxx
Error description:
Iteration: xxxx
Logical record number: xxxx
Checking for bad tracks.
Number of errors: xxxx
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