I can't speak for the 7970, but I can tell you that Pertec formatted
connections are usually a pair of 50-pin (25 to each side) PC edge paddles.
I've seen a few (very few!) devices, specifically an old Unibus tape
controller, where one connection was a Berg 50-pin header and the other was
an edge paddle.
From your description, it sounds as though the drive may not have its own
formatter built in, outside of the HPIB interface section. I could,
however, be mistaken (read: I'd need to see the drive).
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Received on Thu Aug 21 1997 - 08:41:47 BST