More Kaypro problems

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue May 12 16:53:00 1998

On Tue, 12 May 1998, Kirk Scott wrote:

> Re: More Kaypro problems
>
> I'm having the same sort of problem with my Xerox, with a
> Shugart 512 10MB HDD. I can put the drive on another MFM controller and
> it will initialize and format just fine with no errors, but on the WD
> controller in the Xerox under CPM it takes hours and hours to initialize
> and verify...then when I try to make partititons, CPM reports an error,
> that there is data on the disk, and dumps me back to the initialization
> routine. Could this possibly be the controller and is there any
> alternative to spending $75.00 to get another one? >
> Kirk Scott
> scottk5_at_ibm.net

It sounds very likely that you have a controller problem.

                                                 - don
Received on Tue May 12 1998 - 16:53:00 BST