Date   : Tue, 11 Jun 1991 16:07:51 GMT
From   : ucrmath!watnxt3!kevin@ucsd.edu (Kevin Lund)
Subject: Help needed: Compupro 8/16 running concurrent cp/m

I'm having a bit of trouble with a Compupro 8/16; maybe somebody can help me...

I finally managed to get this thing to boot up, and it's now running concurrent
cp/m (and running it pretty well too).  Problem is, I have only one boot disk,
which gives me the heebie-jeebies.  No problem, I have two drives, make a copy
right?  Well, the copy program fails consistently; as far as I can tell the
problem is that it wants the two disks to have the same format (understandable,
though it would be nice if it would format them itself...).  Now, the disks
I want to copy are all double-sided, but all the other 8" disks I have come
from my imsai which has single-sided drives and so are formatted accordingly
(well, I have a box of blanks but they were pre-formatted...single sided...).

So, here's the core of the problem:  my format program will not (as far as I
can tell) re-format a single sided disk as a double sided.  I've tried taking
my most vicious magnets to SS disks but to no avail!  It's like the
computer KNOWS! Any ideas?  Also, anybody know where I can get reasonably-
priced 8" blanks?

Next question (as you can see, I have ccp/m but no manuals...), anybody know
what I need to do to make the hard drive bootable?  It's on a disk 3 controller
and was semi-bootable when I got it so I know it can be done (had to be re-
formatted though).  I've tried sysgen and a couple other things along those
lines with no success.

I guess that's it for now..oh yeah one other thing, I tried putting more than
1 meg of ram in but it doesn't seem to recognize it...is this a hard limit
or did I just blow the dip switches?  Thanks...

   Kevin Lund (kevin@watnxt3.ucr.edu)