Date   : Wed, 23 Sep 1992 05:52:38 GMT
From   : cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cactus.org!wixer!roadhog@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Lindsay Haisley)
Subject: Re: Half dead Kaypro II

In article <22SEP199211510304@donald.uoregon.edu> rbear@donald.uoregon.edu (Ric
hard Bear) writes:
>I long ago got rid of the best computer I ever owned , a rock solid Kaypro II.

>I'm still getting by on stone-age stuff: a couple of 8088 XT clones. I have
>just inherited another KII from a friend's closet which seems to be
>suffering from failure to communicate with its A drive. Switch on, warms up,
>CRT says put disk in drive. There is only the master disk, which I ASSUME is
>not damaged, but the drive doesn't pay it any mind, or perhaps the board
>doesn't pay the drive any mind. I opened up the case, admired the clean lines
>of the interior, and swapped the drives, on the theory that A is broke and
>maybe B ain't. No response. Next move?


In your situation I'd check out your boot disk.  You can do this on any MS-
DOS machine using one of several programs which will read and write the
Kaypro II SSDD format.  One such, which I have on my BBS (512-259-1261, the
Kaypro Club of Austin (TX)) is 22DISK, a shareware set of programs which
allow reading and writing of files to and from floppies using various CP/M
formats.  Another offering from the same company (Sydex) is ANADISK, also for
MS-DOS machines, which will check your boot disk for dead sectors.  Our BBS
offers assistance for Kaypro CP/M users, in as much as we can over the
distances involved.
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"Everything works if you let it"       |       Lindsay Haisley
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