Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!peun11!josef
From: josef@peun11.uucp (Moellers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Drivers
Message-ID: <578@nixpbe.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 07:18:10 GMT
References: <1989Oct16.172021.4449@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Sender: bnews@nixpbe.UUCP
Lines: 31

umrose05@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:


>	I currently run Cpm 2.2 for my Trs-80 model 4, but have noticed
>that it doesn't support a hard drive. I was wondering if anyone out there
>knows what I have to do to be able to use my hard drive.

This sounds like a trivial answer, but the details are not:
Simply 8-{) write a new BIOS / change Your existing BIOS.
If nobody else can help You, I have the source code for a BIOS which
supports SCSI hard disks. I might dig into it to find the exact
mechanism to switch from floppy to hard-disk.


		Josef Moellers

	paper mail:			e-mail:
c/o Nixdorf Computer AG		USA:  uunet!philabs!linus!nixbur!mollers.pad
Abt. DX-PC			!USA: mcvax!unido!nixpbe!mollers.pad
Pontanusstrasse				Phone:
D-4790 Paderborn		(+49) 5251 146245
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.	|
|  Can You give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out	|
|  death in judgement"							|
|			Gandalf to Frodo in "The Fellowship of the Ring"|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
		Josef Moellers

	paper mail:			e-mail:
c/o Nixdorf Computer AG		USA:  uunet!philabs!linus!nixbur!mollers.pad