12 May
2004
12 May
'04
11:50 a.m.
I'd also
particularly like to hear of HP-IB disks of nontrivial
digital size and reasonably small physical size...
The only HPIB disks I have
_are_ of trivial digital size and _non_
trivial physical size - Commodore D9060 and D9090 units (5MB and 7.5MB,
5.25"-full height MFM
drives inside). I keep thinking of trying to rewrite the ROM code
and turn the software-driven SASI port into a SCSI port.
The software-driven SASI port of what? The machine I want to use this
on is a NetBSD/hp300 system, a 319 or 320 or some such.
I haven't played much with HP IEEE-488 devices...
where would I find
the command set (i.e. what strings to send the drive over the GPIB
bus) for mass storage?
Darned if I know. The NetBSD/hp300 driver might have some of that in
it, but it also might not. I ought to go look.
I have what I think is probably an IEEE-488 interface for a SPARC (it's
an SBus card); perhaps I should try to scare up docs on it and see if I
can put it in a machine and build a disk server for it. That should be
sufficiently hacky. :-)
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