DEC Rainbow

From: cdrmool_at_interlog.com <(cdrmool_at_interlog.com)>
Date: Fri Oct 16 17:55:07 1998

I just grabbed a Rainbow out of the garbage with the garbage truck
literally meters away from getting it. After major industrial cleanup
(removing the half gallon of house paint from it and the cigarette goo),
Its up and running mostly. It came with the MS-Dos 2.05 OS, some
manuals, and thats it.
        I know diddly squat about this beast (other than the legend of
it possessing two CPU's) and CP/M. So this is a very basic question. When
I get to the menu at boot up it recognizes a: and b: (though a: is a bit
wonky). It will also respond to W which tells me that
there are two cp/m partitions: e: and f: however, when I try to go to
them I get a "message 23 - Non-System Diskette". I seem to be missing the
manual with numbered error messages. I'm assuming that this means that
there is a hard drive problem. However, it is recognizing the partitions
so something is being read. I also don't have the CP/M diskette, only the
DOS. This DOS doesn't have FDISK so I can't look at the partitions via an
OS I know well (though I could do it through debug but I'm being lazy
here), and when I bit the bullet and tried to format the hard
drive it keeps telling me to stick in the diskette to format.
        Any help would be appreciated otherwise I'll do a low level
format on the segate drive and pray to the appropriate dieties.

Colan
Received on Fri Oct 16 1998 - 17:55:07 BST