Seeking HP7978 Tape Drive Manual

[Lyle Bickley]

On Monday 22 August 2005 12:13, Lyle Bickley wrote:
> On Sunday 21 August 2005 21:32, Lee Courtney wrote:
> > Anyone have a pointer to a hardware manual for an HP 7978 1/2" tape
> > drive. Specifically I'm looking for descriptions of the built in self
> > tests in the drive? I've looked in the usual places: bitsaves.org, HP
> > Support, Google, but no joy.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Lee Courtney
>
> Lee, I have the user and service manual pdf's.  Contact me offlist.
>
> Lyle

Lee,

I also found tape manuals on bitsavers.  The 88780 covers several drives - and 
most of the diags are the same for all drives...

See: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/tape/

Cheers,
Lyle
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