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3.5
HP 9835A/B, HP 9845B/O, HP 9825T
Initializing the Winchester Drive
3-18
GETTING STARTED
The
II
INITIALIZE" statement enables a new mass storage medi um to
be
used with the HP 9845B/9845C Systems by establishing physical records,
the main,
and the spare directories. A used medium can also
.be
re-initialized;
in the process, the previous contents of the medium is
erased.
INITIALIZE
II
mass storage unit specifier
ll
For example, the following program initialize four/eight volumes of
the Winchester disk and the diskette.
The program assumes the floppy
address switch is set to 0, and the Winchester address switch is set to
1 and 2 (assumes subsystem has Option 5xx).
10 REM
*
Initialize the floppy diskette
*
20 INITIALIZE ":H7,0,0"
30 REM * Initialize the first four Winchester volumes *
40 INITIALIZE II:H7,1,01l
50 INITIALIZE ":H7,1,1"
60 INITIALIZE
II;
H7
j
1,2"
70 INITIALIZE II:H7,1,3"
80
REM * Initialize the second four Winchester volumes *
90 INITIALIZE ":H7,2,O"
100 INITIALIZE ":H7,2,1
11
110 INITIALIZE ":H7,2,2
11
120 INITIALIZE ":H7,2,3"
130
END
IF YOU HAVE NON-HP MASS STORAGE ROM LIKE THE BERING PART
#
0021-0011,
lHE
DEVICE SPECIFIER SHOULD BE ":A7,x,x
ll
INSTEAD OF
1/:
H7
t
X,
xl/ .
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