Atari TOS Error Messages





message no. meaning of message ----------- ------------------ 1 general error
2 disk drive not ready 3 unknown command
4 CRC error- disk checksum wrong 5 bad request
6 seek error- track not found 7 unknown media- bootsector wrong 8 sector not found
9 out of paper
10 write fault
11 read fault
12 general error 12
13 disk write protected 14 media change detected 15 unknown device
16 bad sector (verify) 17 insert other disk (request) 32 invalid function number 33 file not found
34 path not found
35 too many open files 36 access denied
37 invalid handle
39 out of memory
40 invalid memory block address 46 invalid drive specification 49 no more files
64 GEMDOS range error- seek wrong? 65 GEMDOS internal error 66 invalid executable file format 67 memory block growth failure


BOMBS and what they mean
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no. of bombs explanation
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1 not applicable
2 bus error (user does something the ST doesn't permit) 3 address error (usually error in program) 4 illegal instruction (two prgs using same memory space) 5 division with zero 6 CHK instructional error 7 TRAPV instructional error (usually ROM error) 8 conflict with a privileged command 9 trace vector error 10 line 1010 instruction- line 'a' error 11 line 1111 instruction- line 'f' error 12 not applicable, reserved 13 not applicable, reserved 14 format error
15 unitialized interrupt vector 16-23 not applicable, reserved 24 vector 24 error (might be 68901 and/or GLUE chip) 25-31 vector 25-31 error 32-47 bomb trap instruction vector error 48-63 not applicable, reserved 64-255 interrupt vector error
PS. a large number of bombs might be the total of several errors


Compiled by Hallvard Tangeraas (hallvart@sn.no) 26-Feb-1995
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