jds@rayssd.UUCP (Jeffrey D. Struven) (07/21/86)
My brother recently bought a Commodore 128. He messing around with
CP/M and is having a little trouble with it. It seems that there was a
CP/M disk included with his computer. It has a bunch of useful programs
on it. Some on side 1 and the rest on side 2, every time he wants to
change the date or use the functions that are not on the boot side of the
disk he has to flip the disk. This doesn't make any sense to me because
I understood that the 1571 disk drive has to heads. Shouldn't the disk
drive be able to access both sides of the disk without having to flip
the disk. I am not too familiar with the C-128 so any information on
this dilemma would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeff Struven
(Please excuse any random entries you see from me in netnews. This
should be my first legitimate entry but I've made many a mistake
in trying to learn the ins and outs of netnews. I apologize for
any inconvenience it might have caused.)
====================================> <=============================W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.arpa (07/22/86)
>[the] CP/M disk [has some programs] on side 1 and the rest on side 2, >every time he wants to change the date or use the functions that are >not on the boot side of the disk he has to flip the disk.... The Commodore C128 CP/M disk was distributed that way for people with single-sided drives. It is expected that the user will copy those files onto a double-sided disk if his drive supports that. If he has only one drive, there are several single-drive copy programs available that will do the job. One is MFT48, available from many RCP/M systems, local user groups, or the CP/M RoundTable on General Electric Information Service's GEnie. --Keith Petersen Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA uucp: {ihnp4,allegra,cmcl2,dual,decvax,mcnc,mcvax,vax135}!seismo!w8sdz GEnie Mail: W8SDZ RCP/M Royal Oak: 313-759-6569
grwalter@watmath.UUCP (Fred Walter) (07/22/86)
In article <2459@rayssd.UUCP> jds@rayssd.UUCP (Jeffrey D. Struven) writes: > > My brother recently bought a Commodore 128. He messing around with >CP/M and is having a little trouble with it. It seems that there was a >CP/M disk included with his computer. It has a bunch of useful programs >on it. Some on side 1 and the rest on side 2, every time he wants to >change the date or use the functions that are not on the boot side of the >disk he has to flip the disk. This doesn't make any sense to me because >I understood that the 1571 disk drive has to heads. Shouldn't the disk >drive be able to access both sides of the disk without having to flip >the disk. I am not too familiar with the C-128 so any information on >this dilemma would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jeff Struven The disk was organized like that so that people without a 1571, but who had a 1541, could use CP/M. The first thing I did when I started to play around with CP/M was to copy both sides of the disk onto one 1571 CP/M format disk. (I think they even tell you how to do this in the User's Guide that you get with the C128). fred