Date   : Tue, 11 Aug 1992 15:07:59 GMT
From   : snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy.osf.org!hsdndev!cfa203!cfaitamp2.harvard.edu!babb@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (James Babb)
Subject: question for kaypro experts

Here is a question for Kaypro experts.


I have a Kaypro 2, ROM 81-292. It has 2 drives and 2 serial ports.
The only software I have is a "wordstar and mailmerge" disk,
which works fine in the machine, and I can use "dir", but do
not have "format" or "copy". So, I figured I need a system disk of some sort.

So, I ordered a system disk from Don Maslin, who keeps the CPM archives.
Don sent me two disks DSDD, the system (cpm 2.2g) and a comm program disk, MEX.

There is a problem.  The machine can not boot off of the system disk.
Also my machine does not show anything on the disks!

If I load the mailmerge disk, I can use the dir commmand.  It
shows for the cpm disk something like....

A0>dir a:
A:  :   :   :
A:  :   :   :
A:  :   :   :
A:  :   :   :
A:  :   :   :
A:  :   :   :
A:  :   :   :
A:  :   :   :

and for the MEX disk
A0>dir a:
A:  

The machine cannot use the system disk.
It hangs and all I get on the screen is
                 *Kaypro*
A

Any experts recognize this?  Is it a disk format problem?
It looks like dir sees something on the disk, but can't give 
the directory.

Thanks for any help in advance.
Jim Babb
babb@cfa.harvard.edu