8 Aug
2003
8 Aug
'03
9:54 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:54:09PM -0500, Christopher Cureau wrote:
If I were to replace the failed one, do I need to get
my hands
on another Digital drive, or will any SCSI drive work with VMS?
Any SCSI drive
should work.
Also, I've heard that
some vaxes (or was it VMS, or both?) have limits on the size of
the drive it will work with...what would work best in this system?
There are some
old VAXstations that can not boot from disks > 1 GB.
(Can only boot from partitions that are entirely in the first GB.)
Also, I don't have a CDROM, or a place to
put it in the case. Again, if I get an external SCSI case, does it or the
CDROM I put in it need to be specific to the VAX?
AFAIK you need a CROIM with 512
byte / block. Most generic SCSI CDROMs
will work. I found that old Toshibas work good and Plextors don't.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
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