5 Apr
2005
5 Apr
'05
5:29 p.m.
Hey Steve,
How about letting the rest of us in on the secret of how to do it! BTW
just got a "new" ICS GP-IB analyzer that I need to try out. It appears to
work the same as the HPs but it's packaged differently and it's alot easier
to use.
BTW II. Just picked up a STD bus system today made by Octagon Systems.
This thing kicks ass! 9 MHz 64180 CPU, built-in EPROM burner, 3 serial
interfaces, parallel interface, keyboard interface, Analog input and output
interfaces, uses EPROM, NVRAM or EEPROM and more! Also got the manual for
it, several IO cables, chassis, PSU and a Data Aquisition card.
Joe
At 08:52 PM 4/4/05 -0400, you wrote:
At least some
CS/80 discs support the CS/80 low-level initialization
command. It's generally not clear how to do this, but if you go trawl
Google Groups for "mediainit vGD" you may find a transcript of how I
got HP-UX 7.05 to low-level format a 7946 disc so long ago that it's
on topic.
The documentation does specify a "Format" command for CS-80 devices. I
have used a bus system analyzer to format a number of drives this way. I
don't recall formatting a 9133 but, I would be very suprised if it
didn't work the same way. I have a HP9134 sitting here that was
formatted last month using the analyzer. The command sequences are very
unforgiving so doing it with an analyzer takes a LOT of patience!
See yas,
SteveRob