Reliable 3.5" DSHD diskettes

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Tue Nov 8 15:00:07 CST 2005


> >(Oh and don't tell me to use CD-Rs or DVDs, or whatever. I've yet to find 
> >such devives with an HPIL interface (for example)).
> 
>    Hmmm. I have a couple of HP-IB MO drives and a HP-IL to HP-IB converter.
> I wonder???

Well, the software is going to be a big problem. Most calculators are not 
going to recognise a device on the wrong side of an 82169 converter as a 
mass storage device. And said device is not going to talk the Modified 
Filbert Protocol that the calculator is expecting anyway.

-tony


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