20 Apr
2003
20 Apr
'03
4:38 p.m.
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 xtguy(a)mindspring.com wrote:
I was told that Don Maslin can help me with boot disks
for some old CP/M
computers. I need boot disks for the following:
Morrow Micro Decision MD 1
Epson QX-10
several different Kaypro models
I tried to make a boot disk for the Morrow using 22disk and the 'STDCPM22'
file at 'www.retroarchive.org'. 22disk did not have a file format for the
Morrow MD 1, so I used the format for the Morrow MD 2. (As far as I have
been able to find out, the MD1 had full height floppy disk drives and the
MD2 had half-height drives, but they were the same capacity). When I tried
to use the floppy to boot the computer, it would spin for about 15 seconds,
then the computer would reboot.
The format for MD-1 and MD-2 are the same. The major difference
between the machines is that the -1 is a single drive machine
while the -2 has - surprise - two! His 'STDCPM22' of course would
not work as it is not tailored to the Morrow hardware, and even
had it been, 22Disk will not normally write a boot track.
I was making the boot disk on a computer which had a
360K floppy drive.
Thanks!
xtguy
I have contacted Kevin off-list and hope to get him up and running
soon.
- don