Altos 580 and CP/M-MP/M Again.

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Tue Apr 23 10:03:05 2002

  After a long DEC-inflicted delay, I finally found time to replace the
Altos' CMI doorstop with a 20MB Seagate ST225. The ST225 formats fine
in the Diags and passes all read/write/seek tests, but neither CP/M nor
MP/M, booting from floppy, are able to access the drive.

  I'm fairly sure I'm missing a critical step, like partitioning and
making a filesystem, but there's a double hitch. I know nothing about
CP/M _and_ nothing about the Altos. Online info is non-existent for the
580 and bewilderingly abundant for CP/M.

  I'm soliciting "favorite CP/M tutorial" recommendations, as well as a
Cx4 for reading the HDD from the OS.

        Doc
Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 10:03:05 BST