5 Feb
2000
5 Feb
'00
1:41 p.m.
<Certainly possible, the controller can "split" the drive into multiple
<parts probably to get around this. Does anyone know what the largest drive
<VMS 5.4 could use? Is that in the Software SPD somewhere? (This I have but
<it is pretty opaque)
<--Chuck
It's not so much a limit on 5.4 as the specific hardware limits that were
usually lower than VMS maxima. FOr example 3100s(early) cant have a boot
device more than 1.07gb but data devices can be much larger. The problem
was a artifact of early SCSI implmentations and not VMS limits. Since VMS
allowed (even before V5) things like bound and shadow volumes to create
terabyte sized disk fields I can see a limit for practical systems.
Allison