27 Aug
2012
27 Aug
'12
5:38 a.m.
I have a Kaypro II whos previous owner swapped the two full-height drives
for a pair of half-height units and made the resulting space into a
cubbyhole for disks and other things. Last time I had a good look at it,
I thought the drives were double-sided. Was it possible to get
double-sided drives to work with the Kaypro II?
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dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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27 Aug
27 Aug
12:34 p.m.
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, David Griffith wrote:
I have a Kaypro II whos previous owner swapped the two
full-height drives
for a pair of half-height units and made the resulting space into a
cubbyhole for disks and other things. Last time I had a good look at it,
I thought the drives were double-sided. Was it possible to get
double-sided drives to work with the Kaypro II?
I have received DSDD disks that were explicitly stated to have been from a
II. When was the official switch to DS? Do the earlier machines need
more than a ROM upgrade? (is side-select present?)
5:44 p.m.
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, David Griffith wrote:
I'll have to pull it out and give it a complete go-over. But I think I'll
need to get some sort of disk-imaging setup going first, either Kryoflux
or Discferret as I have no boot media.
Another thing, does anyone know where I can get a replacement bail to prop
up the machine instead of resting it on the keyboard?
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
I have a Kaypro II whos previous owner swapped
the two full-height drives
for a pair of half-height units and made the resulting space into a
cubbyhole for disks and other things. Last time I had a good look at it,
I thought the drives were double-sided. Was it possible to get
double-sided drives to work with the Kaypro II?
I have received DSDD disks that were explicitly stated to have been from a
II. When was the official switch to DS? Do the earlier machines need
more than a ROM upgrade? (is side-select present?) 
6:08 p.m.
On 8/27/12 2:44 PM, David Griffith wrote:
I'll have to pull it out and give it a complete
go-over. But I think I'll need to get some sort of disk-imaging setup going first,
either Kryoflux or Discferret as I have no boot media.
Imagedisk should work. Dave has Kaypro II system disks on his site.
28 Aug
28 Aug
9:19 a.m.
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Al Kossow wrote:
On 8/27/12 2:44 PM, David Griffith wrote:
...and they do work. I generated a full set of disks for my Kaypro 10
using the images I found there. Awesome resource. (Thanks Dave!)
g.
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I'll have to pull it out and give it a
complete go-over. But I think I'll
need to get some sort of disk-imaging setup going first, either Kryoflux or
Discferret as I have no boot media.
Imagedisk should work. Dave has Kaypro II system disks on his site.
8:44 p.m.
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, David Griffith wrote:
I'll have to pull it out and give it a complete
go-over. But I think I'll
need to get some sort of disk-imaging setup going first, either Kryoflux
or Discferret as I have no boot media.
Once you have the data to go on them, you can write bootable disks for
kaypro on PC hardware.
Note: the Double sided Kaypro disks have an invalid value in the head
number field in the sector headers of the second side. But, it doesn't
CARE if you feed it a disk with the correct value there. So, to write
those disks, you do NOT need to talk to the FDC, you can create usable
disks with INT13h. Since they are 512 Bytes per sector, with 10 of them
per track), you will need to mess with Int1Eh for formatting the "pseudo"
Kaypro disks with the valid sector headers, after which Int 13h will be
adequate for reading and writing them.
If you talk to the FDC, instead of through Int13h and iEh, then you CAN
produce disks that even have the invalid sector headers.
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11:09 p.m.
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, David Griffith wrote:
Another thing, does anyone know where I can get a
replacement bail to prop up
the machine instead of resting it on the keyboard?
I would check with Bud Industries and Hammond Manufacturing. If they don't
have anything you may have to have one made.
http://www.budind.com/
http://www.hammondmfg.com/
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