At 10:24 PM 5/24/06 +0100, you wrote:
have a working
tape drive. I have rebuilt the drives on other HP but never
bothered to in the 9845s.
The drives in my 9845B are indentical to the drives in the
9815/9825/9831/9877 units. If you've rebuilt one of those drives, you
should be able to (temporarily) fit it to the 9845.
The cotnroller is different, however. It doesn't even use the same I/O
bus signals as the controller in the 9825/9831, so I assume it's not even
software compatible.
I thought that was the case (cases?). I had just never bothered to
rebuilt one for the 9845. BTW have you had problems with the 9845s being
flaky? I usually have to tinker with them and clean and reseat the boards
before I can get them to work if I've left them sitting more than a day or
two.
Joe