15 Mar
2010
15 Mar
'10
6:28 p.m.
On Mar 15, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
I have a VAXstation 3100 model 38 I bought on eBay for
the princely
sum of ?0.99. Sadly it came without disks and I have no wide-SCSI
disks of <1GB.
That machine doesn't have wide SCSI. It's 8-bit ("narrow") 10MHz.
As far as I know you can't boot a traditional VAX
from a disk of
<1GB... but could I put the core of VMS on a small slow narrow SCSI
disk, like an
80MB or something, and put most of it on the only Wide SCSI disk I
have, a 10GB...?
You can use a sub-1GB disk to boot from, yes. Booting is, as I
understand it, the only restriction.
Also, I have several external SCSI CD-ROMs, including
2 Apple units. I
seem to recall that VAXen want a weird block size, same as Sun kit...
is that correct? How would one tell if a certain drive could do this
or not? Is it a DIP switch setting or just a SCSI bus command?
You need a drive that supports 512-byte blocks.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL