When I switch on my Archimedes, it complains that the “configured station number is invalid”. Whats up?
All Acorn computers since the Master have had their Econet station number stored in the first byte of CMOS RAM. If the battery goes flat, or you reset the CMOS RAM, it will get cleared to zero – this isn’t a legal station number. Archimedes machines notice this and default to being station number 1 instead. If your station numbers are getting reset when you do a delete power-on, you need a newer version of SetStation. You need a program to change the station number. Location 0 is protected, so the normal OSBYTE call to write CMOS RAM won’t affect it. The Archimedes program is called “SetStation”, and may be available from Acorn’s ftp site. Note that station 1 is actually an illegal value for AUN, and it’s a good idea to avoid it in any case to reduce the risk of duplicate station numbers if a machine has its CMOS RAM reset.
