Amarillo auction

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Fri Apr 2 16:22:15 2004

Bill wrote...
> Hey, Jay, they show an HP 7900A disk drive and the power supply
> (in separate lots...)

I'm flush (or will be momentarily) on 7900A drives!! :> Never in a million
years thought I'd say that!

Seriously though, someone should make sure to snag the 7900A drive and 13215
power supply (required for the drive). These things are pretty rare and
finally pretty much going out of existance.

However, I must also let people who may be trying to get HP TSB running
know.... I have confirmed empirically that 7906 drives do in fact work with
TSB. You loose every other track on the last data surface, but it does in
fact work just fine. You tell the OS and any utilities that it's a 7905.
7906's are much easier to find. I always suspected 7906's would work (all
TSB docs I've ever seen specifically only mentions 7900A, 7905, and
7906A-D), but now I know for sure they work so the 7900A's aren't a given
requirement.

Jay West
Received on Fri Apr 02 2004 - 16:22:15 BST