THE
SETUP
OF
THE
HARD DISK
KAYPRO
10
is a ten-megabyte unit. This means
10
million
characters can
be
stored on the hard
disk!
The hard
disk
is divided into
two
logical units,
with
five megabytes each. Each
unit
is designated as a drive. The hard
disk
is drives A and
B.
The drive
which
takes the diskette is drive
C.
THE DRIVE
ON
WHICH THE BOOT
IS
DONE
IS
ALWAYS
A.
Therefore:
If the boot is done on the hard
disk
(no diskette in the drive), the hard
disk
is
drive A and drive
B,
and the
diskette
drive is
C.
On
the other hand,
if
there is a
diskette
in the drive when the
computer
is
booted, then the
diskette
drive is
A,
and the hard
disk
is drives
Band
C.
Each drive is further subdivided
into
sixteen user areas,
which
are tagged
with
user area numbers from 0
to
15.
(User areas are further explained in the
CP/M
User's Guide.)
Within
each
of
the user areas, you can set up files
to
hold information,
much
as
a
filing
cabinet holds information in file folders. There is no specified
amount
of
space in each user area. Each user area takes from the
full storage
capacity
as
it needs it. When a
file is erased, the space previously taken by the file goes
back
into
main storage.
A user area can contain up
to
five megabytes,
if
the space on that drive
is
not
used by other user areas.
The hard
disk
of
your KAYPRO
10
will
have various programs in the various user
areas:
utilities,
word processor, spreadsheet, data base, programming
languages, and games. Later in
this
manual you
will
learn how
to
find
what
is in
the various user areas. However,
if
you always choose
to
enter these programs
from the Master Menu, you
will never need to know what files are in
the
user
areas.
CAUTION:
In
addition, user area
15
has provisions for a file, [UNUSED].BAD.
This is a safety feature which
will
not
concern the user but which
should
not
be
erased
if
you find it in user
15.
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