paravia@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark David Kakatsch) (10/01/89)
Hello. I just picked up a DEC DecMate II w/ CPM 2.2 very cheaply a couple of days ago. The system works with some sort of word processing program which is included, however, when I boot up the CPM installation disk, it won't let me install or backup the CPM. I've tried some generic disks, along with Memorex SSDD/DSDD disks. On all of them, I get a 'Disk upside down error on track 2, sector 1'. This happens even though the disk is in correctly (When it's in upside down, I get the error on T0,S0, like I should). Oh, the system software was on a disk labelled RX50, although some of it was on 3M disks labelled 'RX50 compatible' or somesuch. Any ideas as to why this happens would be appreciated. Mark -- | Albert Einstein got his name after he got| Mark D. Kakatsch | | smashed from drinking only one stein of | paravia@csd4.csd.uwm.edu | | beer. Hence; Albert EinStein. | ...uwmcsd1!uwmcsd4!paravia |
grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (10/05/89)
In article <290@uwm.edu> paravia@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark David Kakatsch) writes: > Hello. I just picked up a DEC DecMate II w/ CPM 2.2 very cheaply a couple of > days ago. Does CP/M require a hardware option on the DECmate II? If so, make sure you have said option. It might also be that the disks need to be formatted in some way, and the ones you have aren't or had been recycled for some other use that blew the formatting. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)