HP9000/300 Computers, CS80 Disks and Windows

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Mon Jul 21 21:03:20 2003

At 10:24 PM 7/17/03 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>Yep, I can boot. But the backup tapes are not bootable. And the SRM
software
>chokes in the Viper board. Complains that a drive is not attached to the
high
>speed buss.

    Hmmm. Interesting. So it will only boot from a device on the HS bus? I
haven't seen that before. I know the tape drive isn't a HS device but it
may still work on that interface.

>
>> Also do you HAVE to have a 7937? I have some 7957s, 7958, 9153s and
>>other CS-80 drives.
>>
>
>If I go back with the origianl configuration, I need a "large" drive. I
>think the
>7937 is 571 meg.

   Wow! that's a whopper for a HP-IB drive! I used to have a 7963 drive
that was about 900 Mb IIRC (all three disks installed) but I don't know if
it's still around or not.

>
>
>> >Couple of questions:
>> >1) What format is the SRM backups in? LIF? HFS? Other?
>>
>> AFIK backups aren't in any specail or compressed format. They're in the
>>same format as the operating drives. I've neve rused the SRM OS so I don't
>>know what format it uses but if you do a CAT of a drive it will tell you at
>>the top of the listing what the format is.
>
>It gives some sort of number instead of HFS or LIF.

   Hmmm. I've never seen that before.

>
>
>> >2) Peter Brown, would you share your software?
>>
>> I'm sure that he will share it but it's not going to help much. It just
>>does a raw data dump. It doesn't care about directories, sub-directories,
>>file allocation or anything else. it just starts at sector 1 bit 1 and
>>dumps the entire drive.
>
>I was hoping it had gotten farther along.

    He's working on it. I know he's eagerly collecting images from various
drives in an attempt to dope out the file systems. I have some drives that
I need to read but his SW only runs under W98 and I don't have a HP-IB
setup in a W98 system.

   Joe
>
>Thanks
>Max
Received on Mon Jul 21 2003 - 21:03:20 BST