[comp.sys.hp] HP-IB floppy drive on 9000/834

corrigan@weber.ucsd.edu (Michael J. Corrigan) (12/06/90)

	I have an HP 9122C floppy disk drive on an HP-IB card on a 9000/834 (7.0)
    daisy-chained after the root drive.

    I have done:

    1. Configured drive into S800 file ( the hpib io entry has 2 disc0's)

    2. Set the floppy drives address switch to 1

    3. Made special files using
            mksf -d disc0 -r -t -l 1 -u 0 -s SEC  /dev/rfd/c1d0sSEC 

    for SEC=0-15
    ( then dd < device_file made the thing light up)
    ( the -t flag was added since mediainit said it had to have
    ( a transparent device )

    4. Mediainit'ing the microfloppy that came with the drive (HP
      micro flexible disk - High Density)

         mediainit -i 2 -f FORM /dev/rfd/c1d0sSEC

    for FORM=0,1,2,3,4,16

(each of which worked, although format option 16 was the only one that took
long enough to make me believe a "DOS" format was done)

    5. What now ?? I would like to use this thing to transfer files
     to and from DOS machines.  Can I use it for this purpose ??

The procedures in TFM (Getting started with you HP 9122C Disk Drive) does
not refer to the Series 800...

Thanks.

Mike Corrigan
corrigan@ucsd.edu

joseph@hpuplca.HP.COM ( Joseph Hohl ) (12/12/90)

Writes:
> / hpuplca:comp.sys.hp / corrigan@weber.ucsd.edu (Michael J. Corrigan) / 
> 
> 	I have an HP 9122C floppy disk drive on an HP-IB card on a 9000/834 
> 
>     5. What now ?? I would like to use this thing to transfer files
>      to and from DOS machines.  Can I use it for this purpose ??
> Thanks.
> 
> Mike Corrigan
> corrigan@ucsd.edu
> ----------

Use the DOS utililities provided with HP-UX (dosls, doscp, dosrm etc...)
to access dos files on the floppy using /dev/rfd/c1d0s2.  There isn't a
dosmediainit available on HP-UX so just initialize floppies on a DOS
machine.

Joseph