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From: stevem@pserv.UUCP (Steve Mestad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Un-partitioning Hard Disk on HP 9000/300 Series
Summary: look for a switch on the back and put it to 0 (NO, not the address)
Keywords: 9000/300 9153 Hard Disk Partition
Message-ID: <109@pserv.UUCP>
Date: 18 Aug 89 22:40:03 GMT
References: <1989Aug18.014354.189@cs.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: stevem@pserv.UUCP (Steve Mestad)
Organization: Honeywell CFS/MO, MPLS, MN
Lines: 20

In article <1989Aug18.014354.189@cs.rochester.edu> ciaraldi@cs.rochester.edu (Mike Ciaraldi) writes:
>I recently "inherited" an HP Series 9000 Model 310 system,
>equipped with a 9153 disk system (floppy plus 10 Meg hard disk).

>the hard disk has been partitioned (by the previous user)
>to four volumes of about 2 Meg each (actually about 9800 records of 256 bytes).
>            So, my question is:  How do you un-partition the
>hard disk, and get it back to being just one volume?

Look at the back of the drive next to the hpib connector...On 1 side
is the HPIB address wheel.  On the other, is the 'configuration switch'.
This tell the drive how to split itself up.  Its a BCD type switch
labelled from 0 to 9.  Set it to 0.

See pages 3-3 to 3-5 of the 9153/9154 manual (Geting started with)...

Steve Mestad....stevem%pserv@src.honeywell.com

(Hopefully this will get out in a reasonable amount of time....
 Our UUCP link is not getting through from either end very often.)