Sure, I'd be glad to help. Do you care at all if the 7978 works? Because I also got one of those. I managed to pick up both tape drives along with an HP 3000 at a surplus auction for 70 bucks. The only problem is that I'm not sure if I want to go ahead and put NetBSD on my only HPIB hard disk and lose HP/UX. I recall reading somewhere that you could boot NetBSD off floppy, so I might try that or netbooting. 
 In either case, I'll be sure to post the results of trying the 7980 and 7978. I'd also try out my 9144 tape drive, but I don't have any tapes for it.
   Chris.
-----Original Message-----
From: jarkko.teppo@er-grp.com
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:27:35 +0300
To: port-hp300@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: HPIB tape drives


> (fancy cut'n'pasting from the web-archives...)
> 
> Chris, I'd really appreciate if you could test the 7980 with
> NetBSD. I can't get 7979A or 7974A to stream at all with
> NetBSD and it's sort of painfull. Both work just fine with
> HP-UX.
> 
> See:
>  ">http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hp300/1999/05/31/0000.html</FONT>
>  ">http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hp300/1999/06/15/0000.html</FONT>
>  ">http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hp300/2001/07/16/0001.html</FONT>
> 
> Regarding an OS for 68000: you could try HP Basic :)
> 
> -- 
> jht
> 

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