HP storage formats on ss80 protocol disks

From: Bill McDermith <bill_mcdermith_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Apr 15 20:28:00 2003

Joe wrote:

>Peter,
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> FYI at one time HP made a kit that had a 8 bit ISA HP-IB card along with software and docs to let you use one of the HP drives on a PC. I used to have one but don't remember the exact name or model. I don't know if it was capable of reading HP data from a drive or not but it's a possibility.
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HP 88500A is the one I have. Allows you to use both HPIB tape drives and
disk drives
on your PC.... The package included an interface card HP88500A,
one-meter HPIB cable
(8120-4554), a manual set: 88500-90011, 88500-90005, and 88500-90010, and a
software disk (5.25") 88500-10100... This package formatted the drives
for use with DOS,
so that the partitions on the drives were DOS partitions. I didn't see
anything in the manual
about accessing LIF (or any other non-DOS file system) with this product...

Bill McDermith
Received on Tue Apr 15 2003 - 20:28:00 BST