up late and working (classiccmp related)

From: Wayne Smith <wayne.smith_at_charter.net>
Date: Wed Dec 10 00:35:32 2003

Hey, Jay. I seem to be double-subscribed since I changed e-mail
addresses.

My new address is wayne.smith_at_charter.net (I killed the old account) but
for some reason I am getting two copies of every post. Is it best for
me to unsubscribe once, or can you help me out on this.

Thanks.

-W

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctech-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctech-bounces_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay West
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 8:58 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: up late and working (classiccmp related)
>
>
> Since the wife is out of town, it's a good night to stay up
> late and work on things classic computer related. I reached a
> milestone, so thought I'd share
> :)
>
> I now have two HP 7906 drives working flawlessly. 5 more to
> go. But instead of working on the others, right now I'm going
> through and running diags on each board in the 13037
> controller... meaning of all the 7 or 8 13037 boxes I have,
> testing each card one at a time in a known working 13037.
> What fun. Very time consuming, but, when I go to work on the
> next drive, I can at least know any problems I run into are
> the drive rather than the controller. I'm also testing all
> the cards in the drive one at a time with cards from the
> other drives. Life is much better when you have two of an
> item to use as a testbed.
>
> I do have a 7905 as well... that one will probably wind up on
> the trading block - after I check it out and make sure it
> works. Anyone want a 7912? Heavy beast, and HPIB only so I
> have no interest in it.
>
> I think I'm going to go back and change my HP2000 Access
> system rack configuration. Move the paper tape reader and
> paper tape punch to the other side of the dual bay rack, and
> mount a 7906 in the spot where they were. Masochistic I tell ya.
>
> Well, this is all a milestone for ME at least, because I've
> always been somewhat "afraid" of working on 14" hard drives.
> But I think I'm getting the hang of it :) Well, diags just
> finished on the ECC board, time for the next card.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jay
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 10 2003 - 00:35:32 GMT