Here's what my manual says about jumpers for the 98032A:
Jumper Function (when Installed)
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1 Indicates input data lines are positive -true
2 Indicates output data lines are positive -true
3 Inverts PCTL to high=set, low=clear
4 Inverts PFLG to high =ready, low=busy
5 Inverts PSTS to high=not OK, low=OK
6 Set for pulse-mode handshake
7 Required for DMA transfers
/8 Clock high input byte when PLFG goes from ready to busy
*-9 Clock high input byte when PLFG goes from busy to ready
\A Clock high input byte on R6-IN operation
B Select words (16 bit) input mode
/C Clock low input byte on R4-IN operation
*-D Clock low input byte when PLFG goes from ready to busy
\E Clock low input byte when PLFG goes from busy to ready
F Select words (16 bit) output mode
* Select only one of these three
This comes from a manual called: Interfacing Concepts and the 9825A (part
number 09825-90060)
If you need more of the 98032A details from this book, I could scan the
section.
......I just found the actual 98032A Installation and service
manual(98032-90000). Given a couple of days, I could scan it and send it to
someone to put up on a site. Its 45 pages long. I have no resources here to
do anything except get the scanning done and email the files to someone else
Dan Cohoe
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 1:46 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Eureka!
Well I didn't find the Holy Grail but this
is close! I went to a
hamfest today and in a box of junk I found the operating
program for the
HP 9877 Mass Memory unit! That's the box
that has up to four tape
Well done...
drives installed and was used to mass duplicate
HP 9825
tapes at the HP
FWIW, the 9877 contains a small PSU (based, IIRC, on the 9825
PSU), 1-4
tape drives, the same number of controller cards (electrically and
mechanically idendentical to the one in the 9825) and a
little interface
PCB. The last is the only part that's really 'custom' for the 9877.
I assume it connects to the 9825 using a 98032 16 bit
interface. Do you
(or anoyne else) have the wiring for the cable and the
jumpers for the
98032? That's something else I've not managed to find (98032s I have,
plenty of them).
[...]
program for it till now. The tape APPEARS to be
in good
condition but
you know how HP tapes are :-(
If it is readable, can the 9877 be used to duplicate it?
-tony