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- From: pvpullen@cbda7.apgea.army.mil (Paul V. Pullen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
- Subject: RE: 22Disk and Intertec Machines (SuperBrain & Compustar)
- Message-ID: <9301200704.aa24238@cbda7.apgea.army.mil>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 12:04:02 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- In his message, Oscar Vermeulen writes:
-
- >I have been trying to get 22disk, Xenocopy and some other, comparable
- >CP/M disk converters to run on my 386 clone for weeks now, but they all
- >fail to work. I spent most of my effort on 22disk, which reports a
- >'drive not ready' after it starts to read the CP/M disk that was
- >supposed to be converted. The drive starts spinning for a second or so,
- >then the error message appears and the drive stops.
-
- >This happens with disks from all kinds of CP/M machines (Cromemco,
- >Superbrain . . . .
-
- This one I can answer, because I first had this problem with my Intertec
- Compustar (relatives of the SuperBrain). I found I had to format the
- Compustar disk on the DOS machine with 22Disk's CFMT /com3 Du: command,
- but then could easily read and write the data from the Intertec computers.
- The CP/M machine does not write the proper header on the DOS disk for the
- DOS machine to recognize that there is a disk there.
-
- Try to format the disk on the DOS machine, and then copy files to it. I have
- had beautiful luck with this technique. (Kaypro format works fine from the
- Kaypro, it must set up the 'boot track' that the DOS machine recognizes that
- it has a formated disk in it).
-
- Paul Pullen
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