Page 1: ...Q KSTOR 15 15 EGABYTE W C ESTE for H Z H8 H89 COMPUTERS OPERA 0 MA AL 2618 PENN CIRCLE 5HEBOYGAN WI 53081 414 452 4172 ...
Page 2: ...SIN QSlS 6 6 d I QUIKSTOR OPERATORS MANUAL MODEL QS 15 Copyright e 1983 _ Quikdata eomputer Services Inc All RightS Reserved Rev 3 2 84 ...
Page 3: ...CTION RED 1 Winchester Concepts 1 Partitions 2 Cluster Size 3 XBCPART 5 XBCPART COM Partition Installation with Sample Screens 4 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION HDOS SOFTWARE GREEN 1 Preparation of System Disk 2 DVDDKGEN Optimize the winchester 3 XBCPART ABS 4 DKXBC DVD HDOS Driver 5 CP M SOFTWARE INSTALLATION XEBIOS ORANGE 1 Product description Introduction 2 Installation Making Floppy Xebios System Disk 4...
Page 4: ...or units when possible by Federal Express Federal costs a little more but they handle the packages much better than UPS They also have a 2 day delivery If you have a problem upon receipt call us immediately and we ll let you know if you should contact the carrier if you have not already done so lf problems develop later and you must return an item be sure to call us for advise and authorization Th...
Page 5: ...data Inc reserves the right to sell or give licenses to use the QUIKSTOR software and documentation to other persons and firms Term This license agreement is effective from the day you receive the software and documentation and continues until you return to Quikdata Inc the original magnetic medium all copies of the program and all documentation and copies thereof Quikdata s Rights You acknowledge...
Page 6: ...erials and be governed by the terms of this license agreement Governing Law This License Agreement is to be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Wisconsin If any provision of this license agreement in any way contravenes the Laws of the State or jurisdiction in which this license agreement is to be performed such provisions shall be deemed to be deleted and if an...
Page 7: ...ITIONING Split band open loop rotary positioning system TRACK TO TRACK STEP TIME 2 milliseconds plus 15 ms head settling time Heads positioned to track 000 at power up START STOP 15 seconds maximum to reach operating speed from power on 15 seconds for disk to stop rotating after power down Solenoid operated mechanical brake provided for rapid spindle deceleration and to preclude possibility of hea...
Page 8: ...of MMS CP M systems system drive can be used to load unload and backup the hard disk Both Heath HDOS and Heath CP M software drivers available Operates with any Z80 CPU and supports both 2 and 4 MHz MMS version 2 MHz only HDOS control port for both the H8 and H89 can be set at 270 274Q in addition to the standard 170 174Q to allow more system controllers Full support offered by Quikdata Inc Compac...
Page 9: ... Kres Monitor ROM or the Heath MTR90 The Magnolia 444 S4B ROM set is included if you purchase the MMS 77320 SASI interface card with three serial ports For the H8 Heath s PAM37 ROM is required which is supplied with the WH8 37 controller board which supports the hard disk SASI interface plus H37 floppy o 1495 o 149 o 225 o 149 o 250 o 25 ABOUT YOUR ORDER 15 Meg Winchester hard disk subsystem no so...
Page 10: ...ot in use the unit must not be subject to any undue shock or vibrations Now that you have decided where to set the unit up the next step is to connect the 40 pin SASI cable to the host adapter card incorrectly called a controller card by some in your computer Installation of both hardware and software is covered in separate sections of this manual If you have any questions during installation or t...
Page 11: ...s follows SET TT WIDTH 255 If this is not done and you have the width set for 80 characters or less the partition table will not come up properly as some lines will attempt to wrap around messing up the entire screen CABLE ORIENTATION The ribbon cable used for the disk drives and our hard disk unit must be plugged into the controller card in the proper direction For the H89 systems pin 1 is always...
Page 12: ...lt partition assignment unless otherwise specified PARTITION NAME START SIZE CYL CYL SIZE MEGS o dP o f iOo 5 Me 1 CP M 1 101 100 5 Megs 2 HDOS 0 201 25 1 2 Megs 3 HDOS 1 226 25 1 2 Megs 4 HDOS 2 251 25 1 2 Megs 5 HDOS 3 276 25 1 2 Megs BOOTING QUIKSTOR Whether you repartition the drive or not BOOTing is the same Boot off the H67 device will cause the partition boot table to appear Simply enter th...
Page 13: ... 62 or MTR 88 pin 444 40 this will have to be replaced In addition you will need to have the associated secondary address decoder IC 444 83 located at U516 If you already have the Heath MTR 90 the UltiMeth 4K ROM or the Magnolia 444 84B ROM installed you will already have the proper IC installed Please note that the MTR90 or equivalent ROM is a 4K ROM which installs at location U518 If you have th...
Page 14: ...ve If you have purchased the Magnolia 77320 SASI board you will have received in the package the MAGNOLIA MICROSYSTEMS MONITOR EPROM 444 84B manual which defines these settings More on this in a bit You must have at least one disk controller card and drive installed in addition to the QUIKSTOR Winchester you have to be able to load and unload data and software to and from the hard disk There are o...
Page 15: ... the Magnolia card the switches would be ON or 1 for the H Z Z67 card the switch settings would be OFF or 0 This will cause the boot menu to come up every time and allow you to choose your partition In addition either card has a jumper arrangement for selecting the port address of the card This must be set for the SASI address as determined in the above steps and by the monitor ROM The SASI card c...
Page 16: ...les attached to it and mark them if necessary You will find four interrupt jumpers DTE DCE DCE LP and SASI Set the DTE modem port 330 the DCE auxiliary port 320 and the DCE LP line printer port 340 to correspond to the Heath card you removed Set the SASI interrupt jumper to the OFF position Next set the SASI port address jumpers to either 7C or 78 as determined in a previous step depending on the ...
Page 17: ...n 1 marked end of cable into the interface card Again be certain that this plug is not a position up or down on the male connector Install the computer top you are all finished with the H89 SASI installation Be sure to have the winchester llilit on a firm hard surface that will not be subject to vibrations bumping table having printer on table etc I have mine on the floor llilder the desk which th...
Page 18: ... labeling Therefore if the PAM 37 documentation says set the Heath CPU positions 0 and 1 to 00 you would set Trionyx 1 and 2 to 11 etc Follow all preparation and installation instructions in the Heath instruction manual for the Z 67 interface WH S 37 For the HS you must set all dip switch positions on the WH S 37 card to the left position in order to get the BOOT partition table when BOOTing your ...
Page 19: ...ata on a partition can be accessed similarly to that stored on a floppy For most practical purposes a single Winchester partition can be thought of as a floppy disk as far as software storage is concerned There are a few differences The Winchester s rigid platter cannot be removed like a floppy disk can The Winchester is also much faster and more reliable than a floppy Where t e Floppy disk is a f...
Page 20: ...L you will see the actual disk sectors taken by each file A CAT SY1 for instance will show you the same files but with their actual file size When HDOS is assigned to over 50 cylinders for a partition the CAT command may show an incomplete space remaining This is becuase only 4 digits were allocated when HDOS was designed and 5 digits are needed to show the free sectors on a large partition It s n...
Page 21: ... and XBCPART ABS under HDOS was written by Dean Gibson of UltiMeth Corp It is a very clever menu driven utility which makes partitioning very easy and user friendly You are allowed to set up a maximum of 15 partitions and define these in any combinations you desire Special features were taken into consideration in the programming efforts to make this a very powerful yet easy to use utility Some of...
Page 22: ...use any system disk to load or backup the hard disk Although the hard disk units are very reliable it is important to back up all data on the disk at frequent intervals so if something goes wrong you can load it back in Ever lose the data on a lOOK disk Just think of losing 15 megs It s rare indeed but could happen We will now take a look at the partition program XBCPART COM which runs under CP M ...
Page 23: ...ckspace space backspace IC Insert char DC Delete char Clear Field era Exit prog red When the screen comes up the cursor is sitting in a reverse video field PORT which defaults to 78H Depending on the other controller s in your system this mayor may not be the correct value Generally when using the H17 disk controller card with the SASI card the H17 will occupy 7C while the SAS interface will occup...
Page 24: ...r field The shifted up arrow will take you to the previous line while the shifted down arrow will take you to the next line so will the LINE FEED key The shifted HOME key will take you to the last line This is a lot harder to write up and explain than it is to actually use it Experiment and play around with the function keys to get a feel for what they do You ll notice on the bottom of the screen ...
Page 25: ...ion s origin For example we start with cylinder 1 and allocate 100 cylinders The next available cylinder is 101 and so on Back to the discussion The rest of the screen allows you to change and define partitions any way you want If you leave as is you will have two CP M partitions 0 and 1 which is logical A and B partitions with just under 5 megs per partition Please note that the category code is ...
Page 26: ...nt panel light up for a short period of time If you did not 1 you either were not watching 2 have the port address set wrong 3 do not have the hard drive turned on 4 do not have the unit connected properly or 5 have some major problems recheck all your work go back to the beginning and start over cross your fingers and pray After this has been successfully accomplished you will get the CP M prompt...
Page 27: ... several ways you can INIT and SYSGEN your QUIKSTOR Winchester drive under HDOS The below procedure is one way You may follow this or use another metl lod If you are not familiar with HDOS its utilities and operations you would be wise to follow this presented procedure 1 INITialize an HDOS floppy disk with your present SY floppy driver As this disk is being built it should as much as possible con...
Page 28: ... DVD device driver If you run DVDDKGEN you don t have to but will then use the full 2K memory for buffering as explained below since it will default to the maximum number of 7 being eight partitions or logical drives it should be run before you INITialize the winchester with the DKXBC driver The maximum vaiue is 7 which is how it is set when shipped to you since you are allowed up to eight devices...
Page 29: ...atal You cannot predict where you will end up and what will happen You could very easily damage your files on a partition Use some logic to do this keeping in mind you are simply treating the partitions as individual floppy drives You could reduce your cylinder size to 20 for just under 1 meg storage per drive which would give you a sector cluster size of 16 instead of 20 I will not go into all th...
Page 30: ... ONECOPY for a single drive system Again if you are not familiar with these utilities please take the time now to read your HDOS manual and acquaint yourself with their operation As an example suppose you have mounted your QUIKSTOR HDOS distribution disk on SYl Using PIP do the following PIP SYO DK DVD SYl DKXBC DVD Now type BYE and re BOOT the system to get the DK DVD recognized Use the SET comma...
Page 31: ...he files are being copied over When the SYSGEN takes place the DK DVD previously DKXBC DVD hard driver is transferred and renamed as SY DVD on the hard disk while your present system SY DVD driver is copied over and renamed DK DVD Thus your floppies will now be accessed from the hard drive as DK DVD and the hard drive will be accessed as SY This is because the system BOOTable drive must always be ...
Page 32: ...lication Any such determination is the sole responsibility of the purchaser This warranty is in lieu of all other warranties either expressed or implied including but not limited to any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for any particular application LLL will under no circumstances be liable for any consequential or incidental damages resulting from the use or inability to use this or...
Page 33: ... Logic nor Quikdata Inc CANNOT and WILL NOT take responsibility for educating the user in how to operate his computer or it s operating system and related programs The following instructions are VERY easy to follow provided you have READ and UNDERSTOOD all of the Heath documentation and you follow these instructions TO THE LETTER If you have trouble refer to the section entitled IN CASE OF DIFFICU...
Page 34: ... SDT80 REL BLDRXE COD CONFIGXE HEX BOOTZ80 COD BOOTZ80 REL FORMAT80 HEX MOVCPMXE HEX SDT80 HEX 5 Using PIP or any other suitable means copy the following files from your Heath Zenith CP M Distribution Disk s onto your XEBIOS system disk SUBMIT COM XSUB COM DDT COM MOVCPM17 COM MOVCPM37 COM SYSGEN COM FORMAT COM CONFIGUR COM 6 Reset your computer and re boot CP M from your XEBIOS system disk If you...
Page 35: ...physical drive address in the H 17 system The following items are public domain software provided through the CP MUG library These programs are provided at no charge and no support will be provided except the documentation given below XDIR COM An enhanced directory listing program which displays an alphabetically sorted directory listing complete with the size of each file FINDBAD COM A non destru...
Page 36: ...drive activity LED is on you can assume everything is alright ASSIGNXE allows you to specify which partitions will be assigned to which logical CP M drives Any two partitions may be accessed at any given time You MAY NOT assign the same partition to more than one logical CP M drive at a time as this could cause a loss of data ASSIGNXE also will not allow you to assign a non CP M partition A partit...
Page 37: ...0 is a modified Heath FORMAT and operates in EXACTLY the same manner except that it will FORMAT 80 track and double sided H 17 disks If the BIOS has been configured by CONFIG80 with any double sided H r drives you will be asked whether you wish the disks in those drive FORMATted in single or double sided format NOTE There is an undocumented feature of the Heath Zenith FORMAT program which allows f...
Page 38: ...om the file so that all remaining sectors of the file can still be read It is a good idea to run FINDBAD on a regular basis to keep track of the integrity of your disks Should FINDBAD locate a bad sector on a system track that disk will not be bootable and cannot be SYSGENed but should be otherwise usable Should FINDBAD locate a bad directory sector ALL files should be IMMEDIATELY copied to anothe...
Page 39: ...tarting at address 0100H to be saved to the file JUNK COM SAVE 4 JUNK COM S will cause 4 SECTORS 512 bytes of memory starting at OlOOH to be save to the file JUNK COM USER 5 will cause the system prompt to change from A to A5 The New Commands operate as follows LIST works exactly like the standard TYPE command except that the specified file is sent to the system LST device DFU specifies the defaul...
Page 40: ...e following B5 DFU 3 B5 MBASIC And MBASIC COM would be loaded from drive A user 3 The search would take place as follows First Second Third Search drive B under user 5 can t find it Search drive B under user 3 can t find it Search drive A under user 3 found it With the standard CCP you would have to first select drive A then switch to user 3 then enter the command When MBASIC finally loaded drive ...
Page 41: ...so the winchester ALWAYS defaults to one of the two Heath ports The default partition bytes set which partitions will be automatically assigned when the system is booted In the distribution XEBIOS these are set to partitions 0 amd 1 It is suggested that you use XBCPART to configure partitions 0 and 1 to your two default partitions It is much easier to re define partitions with XBCPART than it is b...
Page 42: ...verting ANY system to 4 Mhz operation 2 LLL CANNOT and WILL NOT provide ANY support for any customer experiencing any problems with our products when operated in any system with any 4 Mhz conversion installed whether the problem also occurs at 2 Mhz or not For the benefit of those who STILL wish to convert their systems to 4 Mhz we would strongly recommend the KRES Engineering conversion as the mo...
Page 43: ...patible with ANY standard disk driver 4 Far less than 1 have legitimate problems with bugs defective distribution media or other manufacturing problems Because of the recent increase in the number of calls falling into the first three categories above we have been forced to adopt the following policy regarding alleged bugs 1 Reports of suspected bugs MUST be made in writing stating the exact nat u...
Page 44: ...on of any of our products for any purpose 4 General advice technical information or any other information not directly related to the operation of one of our products Further any correspondence relating to the following subjects will not be acknowledged 1 Conversion of any system to 4 Mhz operation 2 Hardware or software problems which occur with 4 Mhz operation 3 Operation of ANY 80 track drive w...
Page 45: ...lowing from the CP M A prompt REN DIR COM XDIR COM DDT MOVCPMXE COM DDT VERS 2 2 NEXT PC 3400 0100 SABF OABF 43 44 OACO 41 49 OAC1 54 52 OAC2 20 CTRL C enter a control C to exit SAVE 51 MOVCPMXE COM To Patch MOVOJMSO COM do the following from the CP M A prompt If you HAVE NOT installed ZCPR proceed as follows REN DIR COM XDIR COM DDT MOVCPM80 COM DDT VERS 2 2 NEXT PC 3400 0100 SOlO 0010 43 44 0011...
Page 46: ... partition and to test the second partition 5 It is now time to create a CP M system on the winchester To do this be sure you can still access the winchester partition you wish to be able to boot from Do a DIR or something and if you can t access it use ASSIGNXE again Now run MOVCPMXE which will link to SYSGEN This will cause the BIOS for the winchester to be created For destination drive specify ...
Page 47: ...winchester subsystem the software and documentation package is required This is actually the user operator manual and contains complete instructions for hardware and software installation and use It also contains on the disk format you request the CP M and HDOS software that is required The only additional item required is the computer host adapter card For the H8 computer the WHS 37 card is requi...
Page 48: ...e means for using two Quikstor winchester units together This could allow for instance using one to back up the other We are not supporting it at this time and should you want to experiment you re totally on your own It does work however because we ve talked to one who is using it Obviously besides backup the floppies are used to load the winchester Standard PIP type operations are used and the wi...
Page 49: ...rinter causes vibration Don t restrict air flow to the unit This unit requires ample air circulation to keep itself from over heating Line filters spike suppressors hash filters recommended on this unit and on all computer equipment Use of line filtering units will prevent unwanted electrical noise from entering the equipment which could result in possible component damage Beware of static electri...
Page 50: ...DATA ON THE DISK BEFORE EXECUTING THF SE FILES PLEASE BE CERTAIN TO BACK UP YOUR DISK NEITHER QUIKDATA INC NOR MAGNOLIA MICROSYSTEMS INC WILL TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOST DATA CAUSED BY EXECUTING THIS PROGRAM The files on your CP M disk used for this program were distributed by Magnolia for their hard disk system under the name INITSASI COM and the associated hex file for the particular drive ...
Page 51: ...r screen will slowly increment to a time of about 102 Next the tracks are verified As this takes place the track numbers will rapidly increment to about 1835 After this the drive test number will slowly increment to about 19 The next two steps Writing Initialization data and Clearing Directories are quite rapid and everything is over Press RETURN to continue choose option 4 to exit to CP M and you...
Page 52: ...ven if you want to add suggestions to the manual or to procedures make your notes here For problems record all the information you can such as computer type amount memory operating system being used exact partition table values noted problem exactly record any error messages received etc Then if you do require assistance and you must call us for help we will be in a better position to help knowing...
