Great Finds

All I can find out about this drive is that it's a streaming unit. Is this another repackaged Cipher F880 Microstreamer? If so, then yes I just downloaded the complete Volume 1 docs on Saturday; they're in both .TIFF and .PDF format. If the HP is a different beast, well, good luck... somebody's likely got the docs. -dq -----Original Message----- From: Steve Robertson [mailto:steverob@hotoffice.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:25 AM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Great Finds Hey gang, With some help from Joe Rigdon, I found some really cool stuff this weekend. Located two complete HP 9000/832 minicomputers. After tinkering around for a few hours, I found one of them has a bad CPU and 3 of the 8 (total between two machines) hard drives had failed. So, between them, I managed to build a complete working system with some spares left over. What kind of tapes does the built-in drive use? The find-of-the-day however, was a HP 7980XC 9-track tape drive. Found this beauty in a dumpster at one of the junk dealers. It's god a few minor scratches on the front cover but, otherwise is in extremely good condition. The total asking price 5$. Anyone got spare DOCs for it? I hooked the tape drive up to one of the 832s but, just can't get it to work. Whenever I try to cpio or fbackup to the tape, the drive will try to work but, eventually gives a write error. The same thing happens with my other tape drive (HP7980) which I know is good. So, I suspect the problem is with the drivers, or configuration, or possibly me :-) If anyone can give pointers as to how to make it work, I'd sure appreciate it. See Ya, Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>