With so many other options for saving data why so determined to use a tape
drive?
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From: me
To: m100@lists.bitchin100.com
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [M100] My M200 is sick
I must've inadvertently backed up my data about 3 days ago. So I have about
20% recovered. That's a better than nothing. I'll backup everytime I create a
new document until I get that tape drive. And the cables
On 4/26/20 5:11 AM, me wrote:
thank you for the tip. i saw that there were two backups right before it
froze. now i know what that is.
i'll have to put out calendar to remind myself.
one project of mine this summer is to learn 8085 assembly so i can write
some apps for this sucker. i love this thing.
can't wait to get my 100 back up and running too.
D
On April 26, 2020 5:08:16 AM PDT, Stephen Adolph <twospru...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I would suggest that one of the main things to do with REX is to back up
ram images into the REX flash chip for storage.
if you have 3 banks then you have 3x24 kb.
Sorry you had to restart it. Hard to say what root cause is, but saving
progress to REX regularly is a good thing to do.
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:03 AM me <m...@scifidan.com> wrote:
Okay, I wiped the memory and now it's back to normal. Thanks.
i'll just have to live with the loss of my work and redo it. I'm sure
it'll be better than the original.
Anyway, i have to reenable the rex manager and i'm back to business.
Thanks for the help. I'll remember this for next time.
I cant wait to get my tape drive so I can save my work to that so if
this happens again i won't be screwed.
On 4/26/20 4:59 AM, me wrote:
The battery inside was replaced in 2018. The aa's were tested and
they're at 1.4+
I have done the whole restart, resetting it, but I haven't done the
memory wipe. In the four-five days I've had it, I've written alot on it. I'd
like to keep the files.
I dno't know how to check how much ram is on it, though. Yes, it's
REX that I was tabbing going to different banks, all three.. Bank 1 was pretty
much full. Bank 2 is where I'm keeping all my documents, and bank 3 is unused.
I won't be removing REX if it'll corrupt the power up bank..
On 4/26/20 4:09 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote:
That's a very common screen in my opinion with T200. I always get
that when my T200 has been sitting unused for a while, and I am more or less
convinced that it relates to the nicad batts being a bit low. with or without
REX.
But I have never really root caused this weakness in how T200
powers up. To recover it, I usually do a combination of (1) cold restart (2)
toggle memory power switch (3) pulling power completely. What the state of the
RAM is afterwards is the question.
Certainly, you can try removing REX. There is a good chance that
your RAM will be corrupted if you do that though (at least in the power up
bank, the other banks should be ok).
If there is an important file that you need to get back, I would
say there are ways to extract the raw memory from a ram bank AFTER a cold
restart.
How much RAM is installed?
You mention TAB - TAB (for changing banks) is a REX feature that is
equivalent to the BANK function key. If you pull REX out, TAB won't work, so
use the function key.. And if REX Manager software is not correctly installed
in the T200, TAB will also not work.
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 4:18 AM me <m...@scifidan.com> wrote:
My model 200 is on the fritz this evening. Video description
below:
https://www.omgwtflol.net/nextcloud/index.php/s/gMS9cbc6fWdaQQL
I'm happy to take suggestions while I read the service manual.
Daniel
