kwgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Karol Gieszczykiewicz) (12/12/90)
Greetings. I got 2 Kaypro 10's. I turn one of them on, nice menu appears, I can use any software I choose, play games, etc. I turn the other on and the hard disk refuses to boot up... no matter what I do. I put in a system disk, get the A0> prompt, type "dir b:", light goes on, head unparks, I get a "BDos err on B: Bad Sector", same for drive C:.... But, interestingly, if I wait for the head to park (not sure if this is normal - it makes a funny sound), and hit spacebar, I can sometimes get a whole directory and only get an error on the last line... I can't run FINDBAD though :-) Also, it appears that I got the computer with its heads UNparked... head (gasp) crash? But why would it show me the directory sometimes (about 1 out of 60 times) Does anyone have/know of a program that will format and partition a new/old hardrive? FMTFLPY (sp?) does not work, neither does MFDISK... I gues I will need a WD-1002-WD0 controller card if the hard drive is ok, anyone have one - REAL CHEAP? I have other ST-212 hard drives at home so swapping one is no problem. I'm also handy with a soldering iron if anyone has any pointers. I don't want to put too much money into it because I have so many other micros (//+,//e,vic,c64,s100,sun,apollo,osborne,timex,vic20, and a pdp 11/73 (whew) :-) that I don't mind trashing this one (for parts) ;-) Also, my other system can not boot from the hard drive, but it did come with a statup disk. I can use the hard drive with no problems. One problem, to make a floppy, one needs to have A: and B: to be hard drives and C: to be the floppy, but if I have to boot with a floppy, IT gets the A: and B: and C: are hard drives. The GENFLPY program just barfs and exits with a configuration error. Anyone know a way around that? CONFIG does not seem to list it there. Yes, I did look on simtel and wuarchive... nothing useful. Besides, I can't download anything. [this is getting long] Also, if I can prove that I have the manuals for a program, will they send me a copy of a disk so I can use? (WordStar, for example?) Take care. P.S. I am/will archive all I get. Please e-mail, reading news is expen$ive... ;-)