HP2000

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Wed Feb 5 15:15:00 2003

You wrote...
> It gives separate part numbers for IOP firmware for the 2100, M-series,
> and E-series. For the M-series, it only gave the number of the complete
> firmware accessory board assembly, but for the 2100 and E-series, it
> gave the part numbers of the actual PROMs.
I'm sure that's because on the M series, you didn't ever get "proms" for
IOP. You got a board with the proms soldered in permanently. On the 2100 and
E, you don't get a board, you get chips that plug into the existing firmware
sockets already in the machine (FAB/FEM).

> > Which brings us back to needing the IOP firmware, in order to tweak the
> > code to support other more common drives. *sigh*
>
> I'm not sure I understand. What does IOP firmware have to do with
> drives?
Everything, in our specific situation. I mean, since you said 2000Access is
the only one we have machine readable source code for, then, to tweak the
O/S (rewrite the disk I/O handlers) to support other hard drives that are
easier to find and more reliable, like the really small HP-IB units, we have
to have source, and the only source you mentioned we had was Access, which
requires the IOP firmware.

Jay West
Received on Wed Feb 05 2003 - 15:15:00 GMT