21 Dec
2001
21 Dec
'01
4:45 p.m.
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