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From: daveg@hpfcdc.HP.COM (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 7925 on 300 series
Message-ID: <5570502@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 90 15:10:01 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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>* The 'mediainit(1)' command does not work with amigo disks, and despite the
>  suggestion in the CRM, was not added at 5.1.  The disks must be
>  initialized, and any bad tracks/sectors spared, using whatever system you
>  already own that supports amigo disks.  If this system is an HP1000, you
>  will need to gen a track map per the next paragraph.  I don't have data on
>  the mapping used by the HP3000, HP250/260, 9835/45 or Series 500.

	The S300  Mediainit  does  support a small  subset of the  amigo
	disks,  unfortunately  the 7925 disk in  question  is not one of
	them :-( The  supported  Amigo disks are probably  "don't  care"
	devices since they are so old...

		hp9895, hp8290X, hp9121, hp9133[V,XV], and hp9134XV