Not what you asked for, but I successfully used HPDrive to emulate HP-IB devices (disk and tapes). I never had any luck with physical tape drives.
I've only ever seen HP-UX 5.1 on floppies. To install something more modern, it would be much easier to boot it over the network. On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 1:44 AM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > This brings up an interesting question. For those of us with a 9000/300 but > no SCSI (my 350 is strictly HP-IB), I've still had no joy ever getting a > 9144A to work. I'm going to get another tape drive from Stan when I can get > a chance to pick it up, but has anyone booted one of these off floppy? > > -- > ------------------------------------ personal: > http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * > ckai...@floodgap.com > -- Today's forecast is total crap! -- Strong Bad, "Homestar Runner" Menu > #11 -- >