31 Oct
2008
31 Oct
'08
2:10 p.m.
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Tony Duell wrote:
> The 9133H has a set of 3 jumpers on the controller board labelled 'Ident
Make that _4_ jumpers...
Sea'.
These seem to set the controller for different geometries, but I
have no idea what all 16 possiilites actually are. Anyone?
In such cases I usually throw the firmware image at the IDA disassembler For example, I have disassembled the firmware of the
HP 7958A and found
out how to low-level format a foreign ESDI disk (the original one had
failed) with different geometry (the geometry is read from the drive since
it is ESDI). In this case HP-UX mediainit in guru mode was my friend.
I hope you've kept a record of this procedure. It's the sort of thing
others may have to do sometime...
-tony