Mastodawn

Well, that's fun. Popped the drives back on the Kaypro 2, inserted the floppy and it booted right into CP/M 2.2.

Ran a couple of commands. Worked nicely. Then on the next command I ran the prompt hung. Restarted it and it prompts for the boot disk but doesn't read from the either floppy now. Drives still both work fine directly on #greaseweazle.

So... worked for a few minutes, then the drive controller or something in it seems to have crapped out. <sigh>

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Aaron Mahler

@WoodooProd I did clean the heads before I ever tried a disk in them and they worked briefly on that machine. Working great on #greaseweazle every time. My floppies are factory sealed new old stock, so clean as well.

I just swapped the main board of the second unit into this one and it boots again with its same drives… so increasingly think something drive controller related died minutes into my first use on the first unit’s main board. :(

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