SUMMARY CD_RAM HPC1711A

From: Daryl Crandall (daryl@dash.mitre.org)
Date: Wed Apr 03 1991 - 11:11:26 CST


I only received one reply concerning the compatability of the Hewlett
Packard HPC1711A CD RAM drive with Sun systems. Since there is only
one reply I'll simply quote it all.

        Daryl Crandall
        The Mitre Corporation
        daryl@mitre.org

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> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 91 16:28:30 CST
> From: John Valdes <valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu>
> Message-Id: <9104022228.AA06909@geosun.uchicago.edu>
> To: daryl@dash.mitre.org
> Subject: Re: CD-RAM (HP C1711A)
> Status: R
>
> We have an HP C1711A on our 4/330 which works fine. We've only used 512 disks,
> but according to the manual, 1024 should also work. Our drive, however, came
> with a custom device driver which had to built into the kernal. It also
> came with a program to format/newfs the drive (in fact, the drive doesn't
> show up in format.) I think you'll need a device driver for it. (I hope
> I'm wrong.) Contact the vendor.
>
> John Valdes
>
> PS. Our driver software was written by Introl Corp., St. Paul, MN,
> (612) 788-9391.
> An interesting note from the drive manual states that while 512byte/sector
> disks can hold 297MB/side, the 1024 disks only hold 28 more MBytes
> per side (325MB/side). BTW, a 512 disk formats down to about 270 MB.
>
>
> I forgot to mention--we are using SunOS 4.1. As far functionality is
> concerned, the drive definitely works on Sun4s with 4.1 (and probably 4.1.1).
> The device driver from Introl comes in Sun3, Sun3x, Sun4, and Sun4c flavors,
> for both OS 4.0 and 4.1 (and 3.4.x for Sun3's).
>
> John
>



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