1 Dec
1999
1 Dec
'99
7:33 a.m.
<looking forward to getting that MicroVAX 3100 is it will free me from the
<tyranny of small, slow, fragile and increasingly rare MFM disks. One downs
<I caught from a FAQ is that SCSI MicroVAXen don't like disks over 1.07Gb -
<too many blocks to keep track of with a 21-bit pointer. Fortunately, I hav
<a couple of old DEC 3105's I can pull off of an Amiga. Quite the disks in
<their day, but discards now.
The problem is the boot and system tracks must be in the first 1gig. I've
never seen problems with larger.
Allison