Service manual

Appendix A Test Equipment
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Any of the above connections should not be made on a network that is in active use. For
example, one of the purposes of the Econet test box is to simulate a poor Econet connection
by transmitting noise on the line. This would annoy other users.
Test procedure
Insert the dealer test software disc into the disc drive of the Master 128 and press <Shift>—
<Break>.
You are prompted to specify which FileStore you wish to test. Type in a station number -
either the number of a station on the local network, or else a net number followed by a full
stop and a station number on that network (if you are using a network bridge).
You will be logged onto that station, if possible, and be offered a menu (FServMenu)
containing the test programs of the suite:
Main menu - logged on to station number
C Copy disc sector by sector
E Edit file server disc structure
F Format disc, ready for initialisation
H Help, prints this message
I Initialise disc, ready for use in the FileStore
L Logon to a new station
N Non—volatile RAM editor
Q Quit this program suit
S Soak test discs
T Test main board
* Execute a star command
Option:
If you fail to log on to the station specified, an error message is printed, and a truncated menu
of just ‗Help‘, ‗Logon‘, ‗Quit‘ and ‗Star commands‘ will be offered, so that you can take
whatever corrective action is needed.
Menus
All programs in the suite use the FileStore chosen when FServMenu starts up. This may be
changed by the ‗Logon to new station‘ (‗L‘) option in FServMenu. The programs all share the
idea of the ‗current drive‘ which may be changed by the ‗Select drive‘ (‗D‘) option and
examined by the ‗Drive information‘ (‗I‘) option (in those program for which it is relevant).
All programs also have menus containing a (‗Q‘) option, ‗which takes you back to
FServMenu (or from FServMenu back to the BASTC prompt) and a ‗Help‘(‗H‘) option,
which prints the option list.
Selecting menu entries
Menu entries are selected, and yes/no questions are answered, by a single key-press only. An
invalid choice a has no effect. When you choose a menu option, Space bar and <CR> are
both equivalent to ‗Help‘ (‗H‘).
Numerical input may be given in decimal or hexadecimal (preceded by a ‗&‘): some
questions supply a ‗&‘ after the prompt automatically: this may be deleted if you wish to give
the number in decimal.
The following sections describe each of the options that can be selected from FServMenu.