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Hard disk system startup
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Prompt
Response
UK
i
ch
Physical drive?
3
dHUK
Which Starti
nq
head?
2
(JEEHD
How many
heads
to
use?
1
dffUffi
which
Physical,
drive?
j
l
EHTEm
Which Start
ing
head?
3
iENT£K:
Kou lany
heads
to
use?
1
center
)
Which PhysicaL drive?
3
(ENTER
Whi
ch
Start
i
ng
head?
A
CliPftD
Howmsny
heads
touse?
1
ente
whi ch
Physical drive?
3 ronrff
Uhi ch
Starting head?
5
I
ENTER;
Hon
mm/
heads
to
us«?
1
Defter
'
MM
ch
Physi cal
drive'
3
:_EilIEfi
Which Starting head?
6M
How many heads
to
use?
1
CENTER
'
These
responses
make
Logical Drive
*
(5
megabytes)
the
system
drive,
using
all
4 primary beads,
Logical Drives
1
through 6
{2£ megabytes
each),
each
using
1
head
oJ
the
secondary
D
or
third
physical
hard
drive.
Study
the display
io
be
sure you entered
(he correct data.
Then
press the
space
bar
to
continue,
11,
Studying
the
screen
reveals
that
no
attempted
assignment
to
the
second
physical
drive
(secondary
A)
is
made
Any
attempt
to
format
Secondary A removes
the
CP/M
directory structure,
effectively
destroying
files
on
the
CPrM
Hard
Drive
F.
If
everything
is
in
order,
lype
Y [ENTER;
to
continue
with the
main
HARDGEN
program.
The new
system hard
drive
is in-
stalled
on
the
primary hard
disk
d'ive-
1
2
Make
a
backup
of
the boot disk
j
U8t
made
by
H A R
DG
EN
.
and
cheek
to
be
sure
TPSDOS
is
functioning normally.
The
split
hard
disk
system
is
now
available
for
use by
TRSDOS
or
CP/M.
depending
on
which
boot
disk
is
in
the
tirsi
floppy drive
upon
power-up
or
reset.
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