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PUTTING CP/M ON QUIKSTOR
You now have a floppy disk (QSBIOS system disk) with all needed files on it. If you h ave not copied
the needed files such as STAT, QSPUTSYS, QSASSIGN, QSCONFIG, FBAD, PIP, SASIXUxx, etc., do it
now. Once you have this disk ready, boot off of it and be sure the Winchester is plugged in,
connected, turned on and ready to go. When and if in doubt on any of the following procedures,
be sure to take time to read the appropriate documentation in preceding sections so you know
what you are doing.
1) Be certain the Winchester has already been PARTITIONED with SASIXUxx, and it has at least one
CP/M partition. If not, take the time to read the partition documentation and partition the
Winchester.
2) ASSIGN the partitions using QSASSIGN. For example, suppose your floppy drives are A:, B: and C:,
and the Winchester CP/M partitions are D: and E:. Using QSASSIGN, you would assign D: and E: as
follows, assuming your CP/M partitions are labeled as they leave our labs as CPM 0 and CPM 1.
QSASSIGN CPM 0 TO D:
QSASSIGN CPM 1 TO E:
HINT: When working off the SYSTEM FLOPPY, it is easiest to set COMMAND LINE for cold boot on the
CONFIGUR.COM program to any name, say START.SUB. Then create a SUBMIT file (see CP/M DR
documentation if necessary) named START.SUB to execute and assign all Winchester partitions
upon boot.
3) FORMAT all CP/M partitions on the QUIKSTOR Winchester using QSFORMAT.
You should now be able to access your Winchester. For example, if D: has been assigned to the
CP/M 0 partition, doing a DIR D: should cause the Winchester to be accessed and a message "NO
FILE" (or prompt comes back) to be displayed.
4) If you did not choose the "media check" with QSFORMAT, then run FBAD to test and lock out any
bad sectors on the Winchester partition. Although all units purchased through Quikdata have
already checked this, it may be wise to do it again to detect any possible shipping damage. In the
future you will want to run this utility when you begin getting BAD SECTOR (or similar) messages).
You would do this as follows:
FBAD D: to test the first partition, and