The 7980XC's can still be converted to SCSI. There is an orderable part
number for the conversion kit, although I do not have it handy now as we are
moving to a new office building today. Be careful with regards to the
firmware revision on the SCSI controller for the 7980. There was a release
that was incompatible with MPE/iX (imagine that!). There has been a fix
(firmware update) out for about six months.

Regards,

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Gunter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: MPE/iX 6.5 & HP-IB


You're right -- it is a change, and this was part of the original
announcement,
IIRC.  That's why we're replacing our HP-IB printers, now (plus, they go off
support next year ...:-(      ).  Hopefully, we can still convert our
7980XC's
to SCSI -- I haven't checked on that recently.

----
Lee Gunter                    The Regence Group
Supervisor, TRG HP/MPE Systems     503.375.4498
----
Opinions expressed are solely mine.



From: "Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]> on 10/07/99 12:41 PM

Please respond to "Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]>


To:   [log in to unmask]
cc:    (bcc: Lee Gunter/BCBSO/TBG)
Subject:  [HP3000-L] MPE/iX 6.5 & HP-IB




I was reading in the 6.1 patch "Read Before Installing"
that "the PBA-IB HP-IB A1747A and old CIB I/O based HP 3000
Servers will not be made to work with MPE/iX 6.5 and later
releases."

Hmmmm.  "...not be made to work..."  Sounds a lot different
than the old:

"Yes, it's unsupported but will still work"

philosophy.

Tracy M. Johnson
TRW Automotive