Seagate ST41200N and ST4766N

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sun Oct 10 05:18:30 1999

On Oct 9, 19:56, R. D. Davis wrote:

> While trying to make my Sun 4/110 bootable again, I ran into a slight
> problem with Seagate's web page: their documentation for older drives,
> such as the jumper info., is somewhat undecipherable for someone using
> UNIX... perhaps it's readable by MS-DOS/Windows systems, not sure.

It is, if they are using "standard" (for MS-DOS) fonts, such as the normal
VGA font.

> BTW, can anyone tell me what format their web page us using to display
> the info? Does Microsoft windows use some sort of unusual ASCII?

It's not ASCII, it's using characters in the range 128-255, which in the
original PC include line drawing characters. You can download a character
set with the line drawing chracters for Windows by following the link near
the top of each of Seagate's spec pages.

Eg, on http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/st41200n.shtml, there's a
line with two links: "Odd characters? _Click_here_for_help_. A version of
this specification with the linedraw characters approximated by text is
available by _clicking_here_." The first link takes you to a help page for
Windoze users, the second takes you to a CGI program that fetches the
flat-ASCII version from Seagate's FTP site,
ftp://ftp.seagate.com/techsuppt/scsi/st41200n.txt

Another way to deal with the problem (if you're using X Windows) is to find
and install a font with the line drawing characters. There's one called
vga.pcf.Z floating around the web somewhere.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Sun Oct 10 1999 - 05:18:30 BST

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