Kaypro II system disk?

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Kaypro II system disk?
>   From: Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>
>   Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:30:08 -0500
>     To: General at mdrconsult.com, "Discussion at mdrconsult.com":On-Topic and Off-Topic
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>Allison wrote:
>
>>>Subject: Re: Kaypro II system disk?
>>>From: "Doc Shipley" <doc at mdrconsult.com>
>>>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:20 AM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>  Apropos to the discussion of Don Maslin's archives, I need a bootable 
>>>>disk image for a Kaypro II with the Advent TurboROM (Plu*Perfect Systems) 
>>>>The Advent hard disk formatter would be a plus, but right now I'd be happy 
>>>>just to boot CP/M on the thing.
>>>>
>>>>  FWIW, it's got one original SSDD floppy drive, a Rodime 252F hard disk 
>>>>and an Advent .5MB RAM drive.  It's the v3.0 TurboROM.
>>>>
>>>>Doc
>> 
>> 
>> Doc did you ever get a disk?  What drive(s) does that system have 
>> installed?
>> 
>> I have A kaypro 4/84 I use with with Advent Turborom and Ramdisk 
>> however I have mine set up with some 3.5" drives.  Mine doesn't 
>> have a host controller so no hard disk.  I'd need to pull out one 
>> drive to set up the right drive to make a boot disk.  I modded it
>> years ago to improve functionality rather than preserve it as 
>> manufactured mostly as it was already not original.  
>
>   I would *happily* install a 3.5" floppy drive in this box, and 
>possibly ship you my firstborn** to boot, if it'll get this guy up and 
>running.  As you said, the box is already heavily modded, and if I 
>understand correctly, the primary function of the TurboROM is to allow 
>more and larger disk formats.  I have plenty of DSDD 3.5"floppies, too.

But you can't.  To use 3.5" drives with turbrom you also need the 
advent personality card.  I had to make mine. Otherwise you are 
limited to a smaller set of possible formats.

>   It would be nice to have the HDD formatter, but that's not an 
>immediate concern.  With the Rodime dying, I will have to find a "new" 
>MFM disk for it anyway.

I don't have the formatter for that.  The rodime I believe is the same 
as a ST225 which is a better drive.


Allison