Re: HP85B and 9133H hard drive Message #2 Posted by Vassilis Prevelakis on 18 Dec 2012, 7:16 p.m., in response to message #1 by Roe Peterson
While the EMS ROM should allow you to connect SS/80 drives such as the 9133H drive, you must still understand that the Series 80 are very limited computers.
Essentially they only know about floppy disks (hard drives are OK as long as they look like floppy disks).
So ideally your 9133H should me made to look like a bunch of 9895A 8 inch floppy drives.
This is how the older models in the 9133 family could be connected to the Series 80 computers.
Looking at the manual of the 9133H drive, it looks like putting the configuration switch in position 8 will partition the 9133H so that it looks like 8 drives with 2.45 Mb each.
Now I am not sure whether your HP85B will be OK with such large drives (the 9895 were much smaller at 1.5Mb).
So have a go at it and tells us what you find.
Be sure to check the series80.org site for documentation on the Series 80 computers and the 9133 documentation page at the hpmuseum.net site.
Best
**vp
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