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Re: Portadisk freeze

Subject: Re: Portadisk freeze
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 01:04:04 -0400
Martyn Stewart wrote:
> For some reason my Portadisk has started to "freeze" when I finish
> recording! When I have recorded what I want, the bloody thing sits there
> with the screen frozen on the sound bars! Walt, has yours ever done this
> before? I cant turn it off with the power down switch, I have to take
> the batteries out and then put them back in again, then it goes into its
> TOC mode then all is well, this has happened a few times now, I don't
> know if this is a coincidence but it only happens with my Telinga
> Science attached?! I hate the thought of it going in for repair and
> doing away with it until some idiot gets it going again, I have little
> faith in repair merchants these days!!

Mine has done this only once and that not out in the field, and that
time I hit a bunch of buttons without waiting, changing my mind. My
impression at the time was I'd overrun it's instruction buffer with the
multiple keystrokes. That was late last summer, and it's not done it since.

  However, Marty has had this problem with his a fair amount. I know
he's not sent his in, though he did replace the ROM at one point.

If you are not doing so, try pacing the button presses, if that get's
around it we might have found a handle on the problem.

If sent in do it to HHb's regular repair.

Walt





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