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From: rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: adding a hard disk to your floppy-only system
Keywords: help, add hard disk
Message-ID: <7316@cadnetix.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 89 18:38:04 GMT
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Well, I just bought myself a nice hard disk controller for my S100 system.
Having looked over the CPM manual for a bit, it seems to me that I *should*
be able to accomplish the task of adding the controller and hard disk to
my system.

When I had my Kaypro 10, I seem to recall that it could boot off of either
the hard disk OR a floppy.  However, one time I tried to make my system
boot off of my ramdisk with much less than pleasant results :-).
I figured at the time that it had to do with booting from something other
than drive A.  However, as I think about the Kaypro 10 I doubt it.

So, enough rambling, down to the question for the net:

Has anyone else added a hard disk to a CP/M system which was not originally
configured for a hard disk?  Can I do the trick that Kaypro did and boot
from either flops or hard?  Any words of wisdom? (Other than "Don't do it!" :-)

TIA, very much. (*)

Rusty.


(*) TIA - thanks in advance.
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