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- From: sjmz@otter.hpl.hp.com (Stefek Zaba)
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:50:05 GMT
- Subject: Re: hp9133 disk drive
- Message-ID: <2980024@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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- The other switchbank (4 dip switches) sets the HP-IB address. The three ones
- marked (?) 4, 2, 1 correspond to those powers of 2. The fourth one should
- be left alone, in the "off" position... or was it in the "on" position!?
- It probably does something Entirely Undocumented (say, swapping the bytes of
- every 13th block when there's an R in the month :-)
-
- Don't throw that drive away --- I keep two attached to my HP workstations
- for reading and writing PC and Macintosh compatible disks, with the HP
- standard futilities doscp, dosls, and their ilk. Also works nicely for
- Macintosh using HP's stock tar and suntar on the Mac.
-
- Cheers, Stefek
-