Vercus
Experienced Member
Hello All,
I bought a Kaypro 2 at VCF and have a few questions regarding the floppy drives.
As I posted in garage sale, I am wanting a 360K floppy drive to make disks for it. My question is this:
Could I just borrow one of the floppy drives from the Kaypro and hook it up to my Pentium II DOS PC? Or would that damage the drive? It has half-height TEC FB-501 drives.
I don't have any spare edge floppy cables, so I'd have to borrow the cable that came with the Kaypro as well.
The alternative is to try to write them with a Teac FD-55GFR, which I could modify to run at 300 RPM if necessary (found out how online). I have three different versions of it, and one requires just a simple jumper change (Version 7319) to change the RPM.
I found a 360K disk for a PC XT/AT, so I'm planning to erase that and write the Kaypro CP/M boot disk on it, so at least I'll have something to get started.
Which would be better, borrowing the Kaypro drive, or using the Teac?
Thanks,
-Jon
I bought a Kaypro 2 at VCF and have a few questions regarding the floppy drives.
As I posted in garage sale, I am wanting a 360K floppy drive to make disks for it. My question is this:
Could I just borrow one of the floppy drives from the Kaypro and hook it up to my Pentium II DOS PC? Or would that damage the drive? It has half-height TEC FB-501 drives.
I don't have any spare edge floppy cables, so I'd have to borrow the cable that came with the Kaypro as well.
The alternative is to try to write them with a Teac FD-55GFR, which I could modify to run at 300 RPM if necessary (found out how online). I have three different versions of it, and one requires just a simple jumper change (Version 7319) to change the RPM.
I found a 360K disk for a PC XT/AT, so I'm planning to erase that and write the Kaypro CP/M boot disk on it, so at least I'll have something to get started.
Which would be better, borrowing the Kaypro drive, or using the Teac?
Thanks,
-Jon