1 Nov
2008
1 Nov
'08
2:29 a.m.
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Tony Duell wrote:
Of course; it wasn't trivial to find the correct parameters (I think that
I even had started to disassemble the PA-RISC binary of mediainit until I
found the instructions somewhere on the net). After all, it is basically
sending the CS/80 "INIT MEDIA" command with IIRC function number 3 (which
is undocumented).
Christian
Well, if you want to give it a go, I can probably find
an image of the
9133H firmware EPROM. And I should have the memory/IO map of the unit
somewhere. At least that would tell you which address corresponds to
Feel free to email me the firmware. I will then try to do my best :-)
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...