HP9133 user guide...?

[Joe R.]

At 02:16 PM 4/2/05 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I have a 9133H connected to my IPC.  I have the 9133H manual and the
>only reason that I have not bothered to scan it is because it contains
>no useful info AT ALL!  It was written by brain dead people (whenever a
>manual starts with "Don't let the terminology scare you", you know that
>the manual is not worth the paper its printed on). Anyway it says zip
>about the configuration switch other than "it changes disc formatting".
>Thanks!
>
>There are many different models in the 9133 family and they are VERY
>different between each other. Early ones are amigo, while later ones
>are CS-80.

   Correction, the later ones are SubSet-80 (literally a subset of the CS-80).


   9133H = 19.92 Mb (depending on the system)
   9133L = 40 Mb            "
   9133V and 9133VX = 5 Mb  "
   9133D = 15 Mb            "
   9133V and 9133VX option 010 = 9.6 Mb  "
  I THINK there are also A and B models but I don't have their specs.
   Note: 9134 is exactly the same as a 9133 but without the floppy drive.
ALL the other specs apply.


   My notes say "HP 9133XV/9134XV are Amigo drives and are configurable as
four 5Mb drives for use on the HP-85, etc".  This configuration looks like
four 1.15Mb HP 9895 8" floppy disk drives to an HP-85.

     also

         "Jumpers   Capacity   # of volumes
          A,B        5Mb        1
          A          5Mb        4
          A,B,C      10Mb       1
          A,C        15Mb       1"

      I don't remember where I found that but it looks like HP uses a
common board for the various models and sets the capacity to match the
drive via the jumpers.

     and  "256 bytes/sector set by a jumper of the board"  Some systems
REQUIRE 256 bytes/sector while others use 1024.

>
>Anyway the setting that works for me is Configuration switch in
>position 1, address in position 0.

  The configuration switch sets the number of volumes (partitions) to
whatever the switch is set to. A "0" or "9" sets up a single volume that is
uneraseable or some such. I can't think of a good reason to use a setting
of anything other than "1".

    Joe


>
>With these settings, I get:
>
>/dev/A          built-in floppy
>/dev/D000       9133H hard drive
>/dev/D001       9133H floppy
>
>Connect the external HP-IB hard drive and look in /dev to see the
>name(s) assigned to the hard drive. Then use the format_disc utility
>(int he Utilities diskette) to format it.
>
>A lot of software for the IPC is available at:
>	 http://www.coho.org/~pete/IPC/integral.html 
>
>There is also an ongoing discussion at
>	http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/forum.cgi?read=70969
>
>Best Regards
>
>**vp
>