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