Re: DataAbort on Softload of Select (4.39)

On 5 Nov 2005 Steve Potts <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <d8381ec54d.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> druck <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 5 Nov 2005 Steve Potts <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> But on a few occassions now when I power up, I get the RISC OS 4.02 boot
>>> to softload Select and then instead of the colourful Select and StrongArm
>>> banner on the boot screen after the softload reset, I get a black screen
>>> with a DataAbort message and a command prompt (*).
>>>
>>> The DataAbort reads as follows:
>>>
>>> Error: DataAbort: Abort on data transfer at &03B6034 (Error number
>>> &80000002).
>>
>> This sounds like a hardware problem.
>>
>> Are you using the motherboard IDE or a 3rd party interface?
>
> Forgot to mention full spec. Boot drive is on a UniPod IDE, but I still
> have another drive on Acorn IDE. Also have Castle Storm 32-bit SCSI.

I thought so, I had the same problem a couple of times with the APDL IDE
card. A full strip down of the machine cured the problem on both occations.
I suspect it was poor connection on one of the cards or SIMMs, and
reinserting solved it.

>> Have you removed C32)
>> (http://stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk/AcornProd/Support/HardwareProblems.html#C32)
>
> It had a trip to Reflex Electronics (as they were then) a good few years
> back and didn't need all mods as it was quite new and had some of the fixes
> at manufacture time, but they did the remaining mods. It went in due to PC
> Card timing issues back then.

Check anyway if is been removed when stripping the machine down.

---druck

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