21 Dec
2001
21 Dec
'01
9:59 p.m.
I've got a Vaxtation 4000/60 also! I can tell you that it is HIGHLY
unlikely you will find a cdrom drive from which you can install VMS. Mine
is running VMS 7.2 and NetBSD 1.5.2. After MUCH screwing around I finally
just went out and got an RRD40 to install systems software.
If booting isn't your thing however, almost any scsi cdrom will suffice.
Regards,
Jeff
In <200112212245.fBLMj5212464(a)shell1.aracnet.com>om>, on 12/21/01
at 02:45 PM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> said:
> Yep. It's the top drive that's gone. It
looks, from the way the power &
> SCSI cables are "settled", like that drive was recently pulled, too.
>
> Doc
Try and find an RZ28 for your primary disk and put your
swap on the RZ24.
Might even be worthwhile to get two RZ28's for it. A 2GB disk like the
RZ28 will hold most stuff you need on a OpenVMS/VAX system. Shoot, I've
got a really nice 10k RPM 9GB drive on my PWS433au for a system disk and
even with all the software that's installed I still have tons of room for
it (the data is all on RZ29's in a BA350).
Does the VS4000/60 have a CD-ROM drive? If not
something like a RRD42
should suffice nicely. If you've access to someplace with a lot of old
SCSI CD-ROM's, just look for one that supports 512-byte blocks. You need
that to boot. Something like a TLZ06 4mm DAT drive would be a nice
complement to the system as well.
I've got a VS4000/60 it's an excellent system
to have if you're most
interested in running VMS on a VAX! BTW, if you want to expand your disk
capacity a BA350 works great on one.
Zane
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