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Page 1: ...eTRS 80 Model 16B Built in Hard Disk SYSTEM MANUAL e CUSTOM MANUFACTURED IN U S A BY RADIO SHACK A DIVISION OF TANDY CORPORATION...

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Page 3: ...80S OR O GE CAU 0 0 TO E CAU D D R orLY OR NDIRECTLY 3Y EOUIP 1 OR SGFT N RE SOLD ED LICE OR FURN SHED BY R J O SHACK In NG BUT NOT U J Eu 10 INTFRRUPTION OF SERVIC LUSS OF SS Q I NrG PATORY PHOF rS C...

Page 4: ...tertcrcocc TRS XENIX Operating Sj 1em Copyright 1982 Mic II All Rights R rved llcenoed l Tandy Corpor llon TRSOOS 2 Ob Oper tlng Syll1em Copyright 19811 Tandy CO porotion All Rights R rved TRSOOS II O...

Page 5: ...arious oarts of your syolem Ie different ypes of disks and how to nsta I your sys em It also shows 110W to operate ti e System load a p ogram and use some of the more halpful commands In addition it a...

Page 6: ...from their operands by one or more b ank spaces Multipe op ands where allowed may oe separated from each o her by a comma a comma followed by orle or more blanks or by one or more blanks Blanks and c...

Page 7: ...Power Up Power Down Powering Up ne System Powenng Dow E lor Messages Section III Hard Disk Control Section 1111 Floppy Diskette Preparation 6 Backing Uo TRSDOS II ar ld TRSDOS 200 Backing Up Yo r TRSD...

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Page 9: ...SECTION 1 INSTALLATION AND POWER UP...

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Page 11: ...CHAPTER 1 INSTALLING YOUR BUILT IN HARD DISK SYSTEM This chapter shows you how to install your Built in Hard Disk System Built in Hard Disk System Console and Keyboard 5...

Page 12: ...not throw this map away You may need to refer to it when formatting the disk and Radio Shack service technicians may need to refer to it if your drive ever needs servicing At the front of your manuals...

Page 13: ...Repeats the power up sequence Power Light Lighted when the system s power is on Never move the unit while lit Drive Light Never remove a diskette when the drive light is on Display Console Reset Butto...

Page 14: ...racters are output To release LOCK press SHIFT Numeric Keypad These keys are not affected by SHIFT LOCK ar CAPS RPT Repeats a character continuously when held down at the same time as another key To d...

Page 15: ...a grounded 120 VAC 3 prong outlet that does not power heavy machinery copiers or office machines with defective switches or use a grounded power strip such as Radio Shack s Plug In Power Strip 2 Make...

Page 16: ...ters modems and data terminals When connecting a DB 25 type cable fit the cable connector to your Built in Hard Disk System s connector Internally Connected Peripheral Equipment The floppy diskette an...

Page 17: ...ctor on one end of he cable to the 50 p n connector on the chassis Connect the other end at the cable 10 the E pansioll Unit Position all the B ill in Hard Disk internal connectors so tl at the cables...

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Page 19: ...ive 1 ald other periphe al floopy diske te d ves C81 bp added Hard disks _ vour Built in Ha d Disk System ras onc b Ji I in rard disK dr ve Drive t and anc ler oeripherai secondary t arcl disk drive c...

Page 20: ...able the diskette Do this by covering the write protect notch with one of the gummed foil tabs provided You cannot change a diskette s information if the write protect notch is uncovered Sector Hole I...

Page 21: ...you put in them programs ca a information and eaer fie has a different name Disk files uSl aily are created through an application program Operating Systems and Application Programs Operating 8Y3te 18...

Page 22: ...ASIC IS a TRSDOS II TRSDOS program it runs under TRSDOS and TRSDOS II This application program lets you write programs in BASIC Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code To learn more about your...

Page 23: ...Drive if present will be turned on automatically Allow 1 minute warm up for the hard disk drives 3 Turn on any other peripheral equipment Hard Disk Control After you have initialized your hard disk b...

Page 24: ...m diskette into Drive 0 with the label facing the display Push the diskette into the slot until it locks into place NOTE To make a Backup of the supplied TRSDOS 2 0b and TRSDOS II Diskettes see Chapte...

Page 25: ...NTER Your screen shows TRSDOS II Ready This message indicates that TRSDOS II is ready to accept a command or load an application program If instead of the above start up message An error message is di...

Page 26: ...out of the drive 3 Carefully remove the diskette from the drive making sure its shiny surface does not touch anything Put it back into its storage envelope Powering Down the System 1 2 Error Messages...

Page 27: ...select one operating system or the otherI Customers with TRS XENIX programs Prepare your primary hard disk for TRS XENIX programs Chapter 4 Customers with TRSDOS IIITRSDOS programs Prepare your primar...

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Page 29: ...the hard disk Directions for formatting the hard disk and installing TRS XENIX are given in Chapter 3 of the TRS XENIX Operations Guide Note The diskutil program will prompt you for this information...

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Page 31: ...move TRSDOS II to Drive 4 1 Power up your System as described earlier 2 The error message BOOT ERROR HN will be displayed Press RESET then IREPEAT or REPEAT IEE If Drive 4 has previously been formatte...

Page 32: ...S II the name to assign to the disk If omitted TRSDOS will be used PW password tells TRSDOS II the master password to assign to the disk If omitted PASSWORD is used The master password allows access t...

Page 33: ...be greater than the precompensation to ensure the most reliable directory access verification level is one of the following FULL reads the value of each sector and compares that value with what was w...

Page 34: ...mand to copy the program from floppy diskette to hard disk See the TRSOOS If Reference Manual Creating a Backup Library Through operator error power failure or other accidents you can lose information...

Page 35: ...SKETTE PREPARATION This section shows how to prepare your TRSDOS lliTRSDOS diskettes to run under floppy diskette control You can use your TRS XENIX diskettes only under hard disk control not under fl...

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Page 37: ...rs with only one floppy drive You cannot backup the TRSDOS II diskette Use the TRSDOS 2 0b diskette instead Customers with two or more floppy drives Follow these steps Prepare a destination diskette b...

Page 38: ...covering the write protect notch of a blank diskette with a write enable tab 2 Power up or reset the computer Press RPT BREAK to operate under floppy diskette control 3 Insert the TRSDOS 2 0b Diskette...

Page 39: ...displayed insert the destination diskette into Drive 0 Type y ENTER to continue 6 When the formatting is complete the following message is displayed Insert SYSTEM rliskette Press ANY key to continue...

Page 40: ...stem and application program diskettes in a safe place Run the system with copies of your original TR8008 11 Systems Diskette TRSDOS 2 0b Diskette Hard Disk Operating System Initialization Diskette an...

Page 41: ...TRSDOS diskettes to TRSDOS 2 0b to run on Thinline drives Converting TRSDOS to TRSDOS II TRSDOS II is a greatly enhanced version of TRSDOS It can be used with either floppy or hard disk drives It sto...

Page 42: ...ystem Diskette in Drive 0 Press CRB W to operate under floppy diskette control Type COpy THINLINE 0 0 ENTER You are prompted when to mount the source diskette TRSDOS 20b and the destination diskette T...

Page 43: ...rning to the Ready prompt Make sure the drive light is off Then remove the diskette When swapping diskettes in a drive type I ENTER after inserting the new diskette If you swap the diskettes in Drive...

Page 44: ...her floppy drivers Then use the application program as instructed in the application program manual Formatting TRSDOS II Data Diskettes To make a data diskette to use with a TRSDOS II application prog...

Page 45: ...wers up with key click turned on Each time you press a key the system generates a click To turn the key click off type CLICK OFF and press ENTER 5 All commands must be entered in capital letters To lo...

Page 46: ...enever you wish until you exit the BASIC program TRSDOS II resumes contrOl If you want to keep the program to run later you must store it permanently before exiting BASIC 9 To save the Hello program f...

Page 47: ...SECTION IV MAINTENANCE AND APPENDICES...

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Page 49: ...p diskettes away from magnetic fields such as transformers AC motors magnets TVs radios and a system s display console Don t bend diskettes Never touch a diskette s exposed shiny surfaces 00 not try t...

Page 50: ...py disk drives every six months or less Ask the sales representative at a Radio Shack Computer Center about disk drive head cleaning kits Secondary Hard Disk Drive Maintenance Hard disk drives don t r...

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Page 53: ...heckout program reduces the chance that you will lose time or data w lthout knowing it because of a defective system This program does not check for multiple faults as soon as the first fault is found...

Page 54: ...ying the second error message Operating System Errors Message Address Out Of Range Attempt To Open A File Which Has Not Been Closed Attempt To Read Past EOF Attempt To Use A NON Program File As A Prog...

Page 55: ...t to read the directory Try a different diskette Directory Space Full Number of filenames has 26 reached the amount set when you formatted the diskette Directory Write Error Error occurred during an 1...

Page 56: ...t vers lon of TRSDOS II or use FCOPY c When initializing a hard disk you must also format the secondary drives Illegal Disk Change The operating system detected 7 an illegal disk swap Illegal File Typ...

Page 57: ...e Already Open already open Out Of Range Address Overflow occurred in the user 139 Error stack during the SETBRK SVC or SETTRP SVC operation Parameter Error On Parameter IS incorrect or a re 3 Call qu...

Page 58: ...ective CTC chip Contact RSSC CT BOOT ERROR Floppy disk controller DC error a Defective diskette a Try a different dis b Floppy disk expan kette s lon unit not on b Turn on the floppy c Defective FDC d...

Page 59: ...Didn t find Track 0 a Press tBnm before time out b Contact RSSC b Secondary hard disk drive is not on BOOT ERROR Time out while waiting HT for Ready a Hard disk drives a Contact RSSC not powered up b...

Page 60: ...perating system Drive Q and Press format RESET BOOT ERROR CRC Error Invalid Try a different SC data on diskette or diskette defective diskette BOOT ERROR Record not found Re format your dis TK bootstr...

Page 61: ...diskette if you have enough floppy diskette drives you can use this utility to copy and TRSDOS II system or data diskette Note You cannot back up a double sided to a single sided diskette Backing Up T...

Page 62: ...orage space 3 Enter the date and time 4 When TRSDOS II Ready is displayed type BACKUP 0 TO 2 IENTER Backup Successfully Completed is displayed when the backup is finished TRSDOS Backup The TRSDOS BACK...

Page 63: ...n type BACKUP 2 TO 3 ENTER TRSDOS READY is displayed when the backup is finished With TRSDOS 2 0b in Drive 0 you can now use your backup data diskette in another drive BACKUP Duplicate a Diskette BACK...

Page 64: ...NOAUTO SYS Examples BACKUP 3 TO 2 pW ASHER ENTER makes a mirror image copy of the diskette in Drive 3 to the diskette In Drive 2 using the password ASHER BACKUP 2 TOm NEW TEST IEHllID copies the diske...

Page 65: ...ette Note Neither SAVE nor RESTORE is possible under floppy control with a single floppy drive configuration References to floppy drives other than III are for users with floppy expansion drives Creat...

Page 66: ...e of the folloWing d which is a drive specification and is a number between 0 7 filespec d specifies a TRSDOS II file or INDirect file to be saved wildcard d is a TRSDOS II wildcard and includes a dis...

Page 67: ...is list of filespecs When TRSDOS II Ready type BUILD PROGRAMS 0 ENTER This creates an indirect file called PROGRAMS After TRSDOS II prompts you with Enter command ine 1 80 enter your list of file spec...

Page 68: ...81 10 15 81 TEST PRG 10 29 81 10 29 81 If you want to save only those files created on June 1 1982 use the following command SAVE 1 5 TO 0 OC 060182 ENTER The first four files are saved to the floppy...

Page 69: ...ENTER again and the Fixed line will be saved You can now edit the next command line Restoring your Files To restore information to a hard disk other than Drive 4 replace 4 with the desired drive numb...

Page 70: ...ard disk try to get a directory of your primary hard disk drive Type DIR 4 ENTER 56 If you can get a directory then you probably can save the contents of your hard disk 4 Save the contents of your pri...

Page 71: ...isplay only the DATASET identifier INO indirect tells TRSDOS II to use the contents of the destination file as a list of destination filespecs that meet the requirements stated above KILL tells TRSOOS...

Page 72: ...loppy diskette in Drive 2 and puts them on the hard disk in Drive 4 RESTORE 2 PROGRAMS IND ENTER where PROGRAMS is an indirect file containing the files MAILIST PRG 4 MAILDAT TXT 4 CHANGES TXT 4 retri...

Page 73: ...APPENDIX C Graphics Codes lIl II I 00 m m 00 rnJ lIJll H1 08 09 OA OB OC 00 OE OF J jllJlIJrnBD 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 _I I1J 18 19 1A 18 1C 10 1E 1F 59...

Page 74: ...ulation mode lets you execute programs previously developed for the TRS 80 Model II without changing them first Computational Processor System 68000 based with either 128K or 256K 384K or 512K bytes o...

Page 75: ...h double sided floppy diskette drive Maximum One built in and up to two external 8 inch double sided floppy diskette drives floppy diskette expansion unit needed for two external drives Preventive Mai...

Page 76: ...rees Centigrade Peripheral Interfaces Standard Senal port A RS 232C Senal port B RS 232C Parallel input output channel for connection to TRS 80 standard parallel interface I lne printers Floppy disket...

Page 77: ...eady 15 1 7 3 17 24 6 5 8 2 4 20 Ground Receive Data Receiver Xmitter Clock Data Set Ready Clear la Send Carrier Detect Transmit Data Request la Send Data Terminal Ready 1 7 3 17 6 5 8 2 4 20 2 3 4 5...

Page 78: ...rinter logic FAULT Input to the computer from the printer 28 low indicates fault paper empty light detect deselect and so on GROUND Common signal ground 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 2O 22 24 27 31 33 NG Not...

Page 79: ...to 2972 m Storage 0 to 12000 ft 0 to 3650 m Hard Disk Drive 190 Mbytes 15 5 Mbytes Primary 159 Mbytes Secondary Storage Capacity TRSDOS II Formatted Floppy Diskette Sectors per Track 320 Bytes per Sec...

Page 80: ...strated below Model16B to Model16B only 08 25 MALE CONNECTOR CONNECT TO RS 232 MODEL 16B I w I 0 I I I w I 0 14 08 25 CONNECTOR 13 25 I 08 25 MALE CONNECTOR CONNECT TO CHANNEL A MODEL 168 Connection D...

Page 81: ...ot ppl c ble At READY wil TRSDOS II I primary drive p ess RESET and HOLD enterir g l e dale TRSDOS At Ready with TRSDOS Not appl cable n Drive 0 press RESET I h r I disk p es REPEAT BREAK TYlle of Dis...

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Page 83: ...tercepted by TRSDOS II It is never returned as a character _ 21 40 24 25 7E 2A 5C 21 40 24 25 lSE 2A 28 ESC 31 2 3 4 34 5 35 6 737 8 38 9 1B 31 33 34 35 37 38 39 11 17 05 12 14 19 15 09 TAB Q51 W57 E...

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Page 85: ...10 58 5D 4F p50 58 I 5D 4F 50 78 7D HOLD 6F 70 78 7D 00 DC 3A IL 4C 3A f 4C 38 27 ENTER 6C 38 27 OD 3E 3F 3E 3F SHIFT I 2E I 2F REPEAT 2E 2F I 20 Fl F2 F3 F4 F5 01 02 04 DC 15 7 a 9 F6 2C 37 3 39 10...

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Page 87: ...bles 67 Display Console 7 Reset Button 7 Drive Latch 7 RESTORE 55 57 Drive Light 7 Floppy Disk Drive SAVE 50 52 Secondary Hard Disk 24 25 Maintenance 38 Ser lal I O Connector 10 Floppy Diskette 13 Spe...

Page 88: ...Subject TRS XENIX Operating System Backing Up Formatting Write Protect Notch Write Protect Tab 72 Page 21 21 14 14...

Page 89: ...rves the right to refuse to service the equipment or to void any remaining warranty on the equipment 2 If any Radio Shack computer equipment has been modified so that it is not within manufacturer s s...

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