sticky Sony 3.5" drive

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Oct 29 07:12:00 2003

At 11:26 PM 10/28/03 +0000, you wrote:
>> The good thing is that those drives are fairly easy to find. AFIK all the
>> double sided drives used by HP are interchangable. Find on old 9133, 9153
>
>There are at least 2 types. The older one is full height and has a 26 pin
>connector, with a separate 4 pin power connector.

  I don't think I've ever seen one of this type. Do you know what HP models
they were used in?


The later one is half
>height and has a 34 pin connecotr (with power on some of the odd-numbered
>pins). The former is used in the 9114A, the latter in the 9114B, for
>example.
>
>
>> or similar combination hard/floppy drive that has a bad hard drive in it
>> and take the floppy drive from it.
>
>IIRC, the 9153 uses the later drive (the 9133 uses the older one, as do
>many other disk units).
>
>The older HP hard disk units used standard hard disks too (the 9133H uses
>an ST225 IIRC). However, they seem to have been specially low-level
>formatted, and I've never found a way to format a non-HP drive to work in
>thuse boxes. Has anyone ever done this?

   I have. I'm pretty sure that it was on a drive that used a Seagate drive
internally (251 I THINK!) but I don't remember what HP model it was. Sorry.
I've tried it with some other drives that used non-Seagate drives but could
never make it work. I wonder if you had a working and replacement drive if
it would be possible to install both bare drives in another computer and
use some kind of cloning software to "format" the replacement drive.
Someone that knows HP-IB drive operation may be able to write a program to
make the drives format themselves (assuming that they're even capable of
it). Steve Robertson is doing a lot of work in that area.

   Joe

>
>-tony
>
Received on Wed Oct 29 2003 - 07:12:00 GMT