on 5/8/02 9:26 AM, Seth Hurwitz at shurwit1_at_jhmi.edu wrote:
>> Could the added power drain of the actively used modem have dropped
> the
>> power low enough during the reset to cause this??
>
> (>clutching at straws, obviously)
>
> My (limited) understanding is that low power level should have nothing
> to do with a brain wipe (e.g. Newtons hold data w/o power).
That's why I said I was clutching at straws. However, circuits sometimes do
very funny things when under higher than normal power drain while at low
power levels (and this was also in a transitory environment, i.e. a reset).
Rapid changes in voltage can do odd things to digital circuitry. In this
case it would've had to somehow trigger the deep reset. I have no idea how
isolated the logic for that is from the logic for a normal reset and if a
voltage transient could flip you over from one to the other. Given the
robust nature of the Newt, one would like to think it was at least *that*
fault tolerant, but it was built by human beings...
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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