Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!ucdavis!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj From: ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: Hard drive for Kaypro II? Keywords: hard drive, Kaypro II Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 10:15:45 GMT References: <17731@hydra.gatech.EDU> Organization: Ian Justman's IBM-PC Lines: 24 tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor) writes: > Can anyone tell me if/how I can put a 10 or 20M hard drive on a Kaypro II? I > there a (relatively) inexpensive way to do this? I can probably find a cheap > (used) PC hard drive, but I'm sure that the CP/M / MessyDOS controllers are > incompatible... You're mistaken there, if the Kaypro in question has a TurboROM (as I've heard). All that it need to have is an ST-506 interface, and you have to do a little of jumpering (the only one I can think of is drive select) and let your formatting/BIOS software take their respective courses. I know a few friends who have donw just what you've described ("PC drives"? They're all the same. In fact, the two Quantum Q540's on my PC came the other direction; from a pair of CP/M-type machines (actually Concurrent DOS, no relation to the MeSsy variety)) > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Eiffel: Accept no substitutes In this case, there is no such thing as a "substitute" for there is no such thing as a "CP/M drive" and a "PC drive". As long as they speak MFM through an ST-506 controller, you'll be fine (provided you have the right firm-/software).