21 Jul
2002
21 Jul
'02
12:29 a.m.
Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
I once attempted to repair one of HP's HP-IB
hard drives used a
Vertex drive internally. I THINK it was a V160 but I'm not sure now.
I never did find a replacement that would work. IIRC I tried other
brand drives but I couldn't LL format the new drive with the normal
user stuff from HP so I don't know if the replacement drives were
incompatible or ?? or if the replacements failed due to my inability
to LL format them.
Part of the problem is that the HP controller in the drive expects to
see a high-level format on the drive. Back around HP-UX 7.0 I found
some arguments to mediainit (-GD I think; the finding was done by
running "strings" on the mediainit executable and looking for a
getopt(3)-style option parsing string) that got it to tell the drive
to do a low-level format and write a new high-level format as well.
Made the disk portion of a 7946 usable again after going "bad" and
being formatted in a PC for testing.
-Frank McConnell