2 Dec
2009
2 Dec
'09
8:29 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Rik Bos <hp-fix at xs4all.nl> wrote:
Witch software version do you use ?
When you download the newest version from http://hammycorp.com/hp16500/ or
other sites, and you want to initialize the disks with lifutil keep in mind
you have to set the sector size to 1024 bytes.
He previously said he is upgrading to V3.14 on a B. The floppies for
that version are plain 1.44MB MS-DOS format, 4 system file disks and 1
pvtest disk.
Once you have the system booted you can also reinitialize the hard
drive and download the system files over the GPIB port. For fun I
wrote some simple utilities to do that using an NatInst GPIB card and
found that to be less painful than waiting for it to read the files
from floppy and shufflling floppies. But most people
would normally
never have a need to reload the system software to the hard drive...