HP-IB spec?
der Mouse <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:19:42 -0400 (EDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp300 |
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Since it appears my bootrom rev doesn't know how to netboot, and doesn't even recognize this SCSI card as a SCSI card, it looks as though I have to boot over HP-IB. The problem, of course, is a lack of HP-IB disk. (I have maybe 500+100+100M of it, I think the 100M disks don't work, and it's been at least a year since I tried the half-gig disk.) I have an IEEE488 Sbus card, but no information on the interface it persents to the host, so that's not much use. So I was thinking, how complex is it? Is it something I could drive off a generic parallel port with some glue logic? Some poking around indicates that there is no reason this couldn't be done - for example, the interface is (almost) entirely async and thus can run at slow data rates - but while I've been able to find some information on the lowest level of the protocols (in particular the NRFD-DAV-NDAC handshake) I haven't found anything above that, and in particular not enough for me to make the parallel-port host look like a disk to the hp300. Is this information available? Presumably it once existed, and likely still does in some engineers' heads.... /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B