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From: kemp@uiatma.atmos.uiuc.edu (John Kemp)
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Subject: Re: Mixed 700/300 clusters and local disks
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Date: 1 Jun 91 19:49:32 GMT
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In article <7370405@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> rjn@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
>re: Series 700 I/O support...
>> Will HP-IB disks ever be supported?
>
>Probably not officially, but the CS/80 driver ported for use with the 9144A
>and 9145A cartridge tape drives reportedly works with "many" CS/80 disk
>drives.  SS/80 disks I don't yet know about.  I'm also not sure about the
>status of CS/80 'mediainit' on s700.
>
>> Will HP-IB 9-track tape ever be supported?
>> Will HP-IB DAT ever be supported?
>
>Probably not.  These two share the "tape1" serial HP-IB (not CS/80) driver,
>which as far as I know has not been ported to the 700.  There are plans to
>support SCSI 9-track drives (7979S/80S/80SX), and upgrade kits exist to
>convert HP-IB 7979A/80A/80XC drives to SCSI.

Well what is the point of even selling an "HP-IB" card on the 
700's?  I think someone at HP should tell us exactly what this "HP-IB"
card for the 700's is supposed to be used for?

Better yet, why don't they make the card work as it was advertised:
with HP-IB tapes and disk drives?  It wouldn't be so bad if all the 
announcements leading up to this point hadn't been saying that "sure 
you can just move your HP-IB peripherals to the 700 HP-IB card."

We're just lucky someone else brought up the question.
HP, this is a real shocker to some of your past customers.
It borders on false advertising, IMHO.

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