Hi, Al
Thanks a lot for provided details !
You were right saying that FW might not support larger CHS disks eve if they are smaller than 512 Mbytes. I have made a little test i which I have entirely erased by using Norton Disk Editor the conten of Quantum 85 Mbytes drive. Then I have installed that drive into th
16500b mainframe. The 16500b reported, that the HDD test failed. But afterwards, I wa able to boot the system from floppy and format the HDD. Then I hav transfered the system files by simply creating the SYSTEM director on formatted HDD and copying all the files from floppy to thi directory After, I rebooted the system, 16500b passed all the tests and boote from HDD It looks to me like the 16500b logic analyzer does support just a fe known by FW HDD types. I have asked quite a lot of people usin
16500b mainframes about the make of the their hard drives. I had replies in which ALL THE HARDDRIVES are QUANTUM type. The size var from 85 Mbytes to 420 Mbytes.
On the other hand after further investigation I found, that th
PHYSICAL SECTOR 0 on HDD doesn't contain the HDD MBR, instead it ha the BOOT record exactly like on the floppy, but presented in the BI ENDIEN format.
Al, thank you for pointing out the fact, that 16500b OS is pSOS based
Now I understand why the boot sector format is such a weird thing
Also it looks like no additional FDISK utility is required. M
previous assumption was wrong. The 16500B FW will automaticall detect the HDD geometry and will be capable of formatting it
Dear HP 16500 GURUs, can you please list some HDD models supported b
16500B