Kaypro 2 update

From: Doug Spence <ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Wed Apr 29 23:58:43 1998

I finally had enough time today to go to Canadian Tire and pick up a set
of allen wrenches, so I finally pulled the disk drives out of my ailing
Kaypro 2.

I moved the resistor pack to what was formerly drive A, and swapped the
jumper blocks, put everything back together... and it worked! The Kaypro
2 booted up WordStar with absolutely no problems.

Now drive B (formerly drive A) can't be accessed. It gets a "Bdos Err On
B: Bad Sector" on known good disks. So it's definitely the drive that's
bad.

Mechanically the drive seems sound, so I guess I have to assume that
there's something wrong with the electronics. I haven't done a
side-by-side comparison with a working Tandon drive to see if there's any
obvious differences, though.


Doug Spence
ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
Received on Wed Apr 29 1998 - 23:58:43 BST