8 Feb
2003
8 Feb
'03
6:56 a.m.
I'll try to dig up an old copy of an HP-users grup magazine that has an
in-depth article on the transition to
HPIB drives on 13037 controllers. Perhaps it will answer your questions
bettern than I can't.
Eric Smith wrote:
Bob Shannon wrote:
Take a look at the interface schematics for the
13037 (interface) versus
the 12821A. There is near-zero doubt that
these need totally different drivers, as MAC disks make a good deal of
lower-level information
available to the controller than CS/80 does.
I'm not asking whether an -H drive on a 12821A looks like a non-H on
a 13037. I know they don't. The 12821 has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with
my question, which was whether the -H and non-H drives attached to a
13037 look the same to software.
Whether RTE supports H drives on a 13037 also has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to
do with my question. But I'd be somewhat surprised if it didn't; the
HPIB option on the 13037 had to have been used by *something*.