I set up netboot yesterday and got the 9000 to boot NetBSD. The 7980 and 7978 work, but only sometimes. For one, I couldn't write anything to them even though I write enabled the tapes. Two, about 50% of the time I tried to access a tape it would panic and reboot. The 7978 can do both 1600 and 6250, or at least it looks that way. I'm not very familiar with tape drives and NetBSD, so you'll have to give me specific examples of what you want me to try. Also, all the tapes I have were from my PDP-11, so they're all formatted at 1600 (although the labels claim they can do 6250). I tried using mt erase to clear them but that caused another panic. Right now they're connected to the slow HPIB controller, but I can give it a try on the fast one, too.  The HP 3000 is a 947. The main hard disk is sort of dead plus I don't know the account password, so It's more or less useless until I can find tapes of MPE/iX.
   Chris.

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From: jarkko.teppo@er-grp.com
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:47:58 +0300
To: Chris Collet <chris.collet@mail.com>
Subject: Re: HPIB tape drives


> On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:12:51AM +0800, Chris Collet wrote:
> > Sure, I'd be glad to help. Do you care at all if the 7978 works? Because I also got
> > one of those. I managed to pick up both tape drives along with an HP 3000 at a 
> > surplus auction for 70 bucks. The only problem is that I'm not sure if I want to go
> > ahead and put NetBSD on my only HPIB hard disk and lose HP/UX. I recall reading
> > somewhere that you could boot NetBSD off floppy, so I might try that or netbooting.
> >  In either case, I'll be sure to post the results of trying the 7980 and 7978. 
> > I'd also try out my 9144 tape drive, but I don't have any tapes for it.
> 
> The 7978 is probably 1600bpi ? It'd be fun to know :) The easiest thing you could
> do is (in case you don't want to lose HP-UX) just netboot NetBSD if your machine
> supports that. I'd really like to know if those drives worked and I'd *really*
> like to know if you can get them streaming or working with fast HP-IB.
> 
> The 9144 tapes are a bit difficult to find. I have close to 50 of them but all
> of them contain OS or software distributions and I don't want to overwrite them :)
> 
> OT: what 3000 model ?
> -- 
> jht
> 
> 

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