18 Mar
2013
18 Mar
'13
4:57 p.m.
On 3/18/13 5:21 PM, Dave Land wrote:
OK, so I dug the Kaypro II back out of storage now
that I have some
usable floppy disks, thanks to a good friend. :)
Anyway, I found out that the current A: drive wasn't being detected in
the BIOS on my disk creation machine. B: disk works fine. Checked all
connections and made sure everything was seated properly, and still no
luck. So I pulled both drives and inspected everything and then just
swapped positions and re-installed them, hoping that the different
positions on the cable was what selects which drive is which. Well, not
so. The machine still tries to select the original A: drive. Is there a
jumper setting on these old full bay 5 1/4 floppies to select the drive
ID? Any ideas?
LOL, I actually answered my own question. I found a Kaypro tech manual
here:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/kaypro/1484-D_KayproTechni…
and although it didn't mention jumper settings on the old full-height
Tandon drives, I got the general idea and found the resistor pack and
the jumper 'pack' on both drives and swapped them out. Worked like a
champ. ...and Fred, thanks for the quick reply. Yes, the disk creation
machine is an old Win98/DOS machine, and it seems to recognize the
Kaypro drives. I'll know more later when I try to make some boot floppies.
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Dave Land
Land Computer Service
Check out my site at http://www.landcomp.net