Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!young%uci-750a@csnet1 From: young%uci-750a%csnet1@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: Old Kaypro disk fix Message-ID: <17338@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 01:13:22 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17338 Posted: Thu Mar 15 01:13:22 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 08:03:53 EST Lines: 18 From: Michal YoungThe problem may not be hardware. My Kaypro used to run the drive motors until a character was read or written to console, I don't remember which. For instance Perfect Writer would start them spinning when it swapped and they would stay on till I typed something. Then last spring or so our user group got an updated CP/M and-- voila-- the drives turned off after use. So-- find someone with a newer Kaypro, and have them format/sysgen a disk for you. (Have them copy the whole CP/M disk-- some of the utilities have improved a bunch.) Maybe it will work, maybe not, but it's worth a try. (If you don't find someone handier, contact me and I'll mail you a disk). --Michal Young