On 7/2/2009 12:04 PM, Dave Dunfield wrote:
Hmm, the PCs
with the 5.25" drives, they not so present around here... :-)
Hmm... but you
do have a PC I assume.... and 2 5.25" drives sitting there in
the Kaypro --- there must be a way to do it, Hmm....
I know this resurrects a truly ancient thread, but I am steadily working
through my Kaypro machines and I have an update that is relevant to this
ancient response.
First off, Gene, thanks for the disks, and I have not forgotten about
you and our offline conversation. It's on my list.
To recap:
Kapyro 1, working drives, boots. Many thanks for Gene and Mike Loewen
for boot disks and app disks.
Kaypro 4. A drive does not work, B marginally works. I got it to boot!
4-84: Neither TM100 works, and A must have a short as no voltage when
connected. With disconnected, and B set up as A, no boot.
10: I *think* the drive works, as the universal Kaypro 1 boot disk
continues to cycle from the 1.93 boot screen to a cursor in the top left
corner, and back.
So, I dug out the PC and attached 2 1.2MB 5.25" floppies and got Dave's
utils over there, along with a K10 CPM 2.2F boot disk img (in td0 format).
Converted to IMD format.
That was the end of my successes.
testfdc sees the drive, but only 300kB DD seems to work. I tried making
an image with the 1.2MB drive, but every sector said write error: no
data, so I gave up.
Then, I took a working Kaypro drive and put it in the PC, and tried
testfdc. I overrode it as 360kb 5.25 drive, and testfdc finds the
drive, but it immediately gives up stating "!No FDC Interrupt"
So, if there is "a way to do it...", it continues to elude me.
Jim
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