Battery check through IL?

[born2laser]

(10-11-2024 12:10 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  I'm glad that's the case as it means my gut instinct (aka ever weakening memory) was right about using the Ext-I/O to get the more detailed status. This implies I did this at some time in the 80's but have no recall what for, though almost certainly with my then-new 41CX and 82161A drive, just to what the status bits were...

Bob, you were indeed correct and I thank you for trying to help. Turns out that the advantage of using the Ext-I/O module is being able to see more of the device response, instead of just the first byte, which for the case of the tape drive -the one I was most interested in- makes no difference whatsoever because it only returns one byte.

Juan