Having acquired 3 7980 tape drives, two of the A model and one of the S
model, only the S model worked.
But I needed an A model to connect to my HP3000 Micro/XE.
The fix was easy, but figuring it out was a little more difficult.
This essentially means converting the S model from SCSI to HP-IB.
You can't just move the HP-IB card from the A to the S model. The S
model had only 3 cards in the internal card cage. The older A models
had 4. The drive's display will neither show an HP-IB ADDR or SCSI ID
display.
So I swapped the A model's 4 internal cards with the S models 3 internal
cards and voila. My Micro/XE recognized the HP-IB address and it was
able to make it's first full backup in 2 years.
Now I can move off it's lone 7937 Eagle drive and RELOAD it onto some
"newer" Buffalo chips I managed to acquire. I think someone here was
looking for that Eagle.
--
BT
Tracy Johnson
Justin Thyme Productions
Ye olde free telnet games at:
http://hp3000.empireclassic.com/
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