5 Aug
2008
5 Aug
'08
11:46 a.m.
listmailgoeshere at gmail.com wrote:
please could you get in touch? I've a disk I need
to read, and I've
just discovered that my Master no longer feels like working :(
I've got one!
It's a Master 128, with a Viglen dual 5.25" floppy drive and a hard drive
interface. I can hook up a 3.5" floppy if need be.
ObCCTalk: symptoms are just the message "Acorn
MOS, Acorn ADFS" and
then a flashing cursor upon switch-on. The drive does click as if it's
being selected, and the light comes on, but there are never any
head-movement sounds, and nothing further happens onscreen.
Either your CMOS battery is flat, or it's set to load ADFS and autoboot.
And this website explains how to fix it:
http://lionels.orpheusweb.co.uk/CompNyb/TechStuff/8-Bit/Master128/128BatCon…
The gory details are somewhere in the Master Welcome Guide as well, IIRC.
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Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/