Date   : Fri, 23 Nov 1990 03:07:06 GMT
From   : bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!floyd@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Floyd Davidson)
Subject: Strange Kaypro problems

In article <1990Nov22.200503.21516@simasd.uucp> donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don
Maslin) writes:
>floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) writes:
>>
>>The Kaypro monitor ROM has no provision for timeout on the disks.
>>Micro C's ROM and TurboROM both do.
>
>You are right - at least mostly.  On the K10 with 81-302 ROM the drive light
>and motor does timeout.  Whether this is in ROM or O/S I don't know.
>On the KP-2X (81-292), only the drive motor times out.  The light remains on.

I should have stated that what I know applies only to the '83 versions.
Even the k-10 I had was an old one, so I don't know what was done in
the later versions.

If anyone is seriously interested in ROM's that handle DSQD disks I
could dig up the source code I've got (somewhere) for a ROM that
handles it.  It will work with 4 drives using the converter that Mirco-C
used to sell (still does?) or with just two drives.  It has some built
in routines to handle other formats, though I never used them.  I can't
remember what all else it did...

Floyd


-- 
Floyd L. Davidson                             floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu
Salcha, AK 99714                    paycheck connection to Alascom, Inc.
 When I speak for them, one of us will be *out* of business in a hurry.