AR.BXA@forsythe.stanford.edu (Bob Anderson) (08/03/90)
NOVICE QUESTION: (Help?!) SYSTEM: 9000 835S hp-ux 3.1 (soon to be 7.0, i hope!) tape: 2680A lp0: 2564B staff: learning gobs, but many gobs to go! THE PROBLEM: would very much like to use a 2608A we salvaged from an old 3000 (MPE, whatever that is?) as /dev/lp1. want to daisy chain it from hpib connecting the 2564B (board also has 2680 on it. no printer model like this in usr/spool/lp/model.. what should we use? we tried 2564B but that errored "can't open /dev/lp1.. error timed out and scheduler disabled lp1". physical address is 4.2.5 if it matters. so far, HP is giving us the line that "it is no longer supported.." we know that. what's the point of all this lower case stuff if you can't do what you want to do??? any help would be earnestly appreciated! thanx.. bob anderson stanford ar.bxa@stanford.edu
rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland) (08/04/90)
re: > 9000 835S > ...would very much like to use a 2608A we salvaged from an old > 3000 (MPE, whatever that is?) as /dev/lp1. The 2608A employs an essentially unique command set under HP's old AMIGO protocol. It is not just a question of a spooler model script. You'd need a new second-level HP-IB printer driver, and none ever existed for the 2608A on any HP-UX system, including 1983-vintage Series 200 and 500. Sorry, Hewlett-Packard Bob Niland Internet: rjn@hpfcrjn.FC.HP.COM 3404 East Harmony Road UUCP: [hplabs|hpfcse]!hpfcrjn!rjn Ft Collins CO 80525-9599
rer@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Robason) (08/07/90)
If you *could* get it to work, you might be very dismayed with the side effects. I hooked one up to a 500 (which uses the same HP-IB interface) many years ago and found that every time I took it off-line or it ran out of paper, that it spilled everything in the output queue into the bit bucket: it's HP-IB and the CIO HP-IB have incompatible views of the world. I had to write an interface program that went out and did a PPOLL on the bus before every line was written to the printer. If you don't know what a PPOLL is, and/or aren't familiar with the DIL stuff, you will probably regret going for this one. I can pretty well promise you that it would be cheaper to BUY a supported printer than to get the 2608A working. Rob