17 Oct
2000
17 Oct
'00
2:12 p.m.
From: Jim Strickland <jim(a)calico.litterbox.com>
Subject: Re: Vax Station 3100
What I was told when I did this was that drives bigger
than 1gb won't
work
properly due to firmware limitations. I chose a 1gb
IBM drive (if
memory
serves) and loaded the latest version of VMS from the
hobbiest CD, which
is
much less picky about drive firmware than previous
versions. It works
fine.
Most of the older 3100s will work with up to 4 or 8gb drives with a
"but".
the limitation is the bootable patition must staart in the first 1gb with
for VMS
naturally occurs and the biggie you accept the fact that if the system
crash
dumps the address wraparound in the first gb will kill the bootable
media.
A reasonable approach is a 500-1gb SYS and any size under 4 or it it 8gb
for user and other "stuff".
> This beast will be the drives for my Microvax ii
until I get an IDE
> card in it.
until you make one that is.
Allison