HP 3562A Operating Manual page 172

CREATING TIME THROUGHPUT FilES ON DISC
Time throughput reouires a disc drive connected to the H P 3562A and an initialized disc. To
connect the disc drive. select drive addresses and unit numbers, and initialize discs, please
refer io Chapier 11.
Once your disc has been initialized, a file must be created for throughput sessions. This
reouires two steps:
1 Set the file size
.
2. Name and create the file
To perform these two steps, press DISC in the HP-IB group. When its menu appears, press the
DISC FCTN softkey, which displays the following menu (the only so�keys of concern here are
THRUPT SIZE and CREATE THRUpn
SERVCE
FCTNS
DISC
COPY
FORMAT
PACK
DISC
THRUPT
SIZE
CREATE
THRUPT
ABORT
HP-IB
RETURN
Displays the disc service functions menu; see Chapter 11.
Displays the disc copy menu; see Chapter 11.
Displays the disc formatting menu; see Chapter 11.
Packs the disc; see Chapter 11.
Used to enter the size of the th r oughput file. The size is
limited to 32,767 records or the space available on your
disc. You must be specify the size every time you create
a file.
Creates and names the throughput file.
Aborts HP-IB operations. Press this if the disc drive does
not respond properly.
Redisplays the menu.
DISC
Chapter 6-Using Time Throughput
CREATING TIME THROUGHPUT FILES ON DISC
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