HP-IB Census

I'd like to see your method of formatting the HP-IB using the HP-IB Analyzer posted. Also information about which drives use which protocalls. (I have most of it but few other people do.) You might also be interested in posting results from people that are using HP drives that aren't supposed to work on their system. For example, I'm using a HP 7958 on my IPC. What brought this up is that today I got a call from someone that's desperate to buy a replacement HP 9133L. I asked if they could use a HP 9134L (same device but without the floppy drive) or something like a HP 7958 and they hadn't even considered those possiblities. I don't know if you saw it but several weeks ago there was a discussion about which hard drives could be partitioned into four volumes that appear to be four floppy drives for use by the HP-85 and other low-end machines that don't support hard drives. A FEW drives come configured that way and SOME similar models can be altered to operate that way by changing internal DIP switches. But it appears to depend on which circuit board is in the drive. Today I dug out a bunch of my hard drives and found 8 or 10 V and VX drives, both old and new style, some are configured into four volumes and some aren't. As soon as I have time I'm going to try them all out using an HP-85 and I'm going to open them all up and record the circuit board type, switch settings and drive type. I'll also try reconfiguring them from one volume to four and vice versa. I'll post the results once I get finished. You can link to my site or post the results on your site. For a LONG time I've been planning on putting up some webpages with pictures and descriptions of the various HP-IB drives but I've never gotten around to it. Joe At 12:18 PM 4/29/05 -0400, you wrote: