14 Jul
2004
14 Jul
'04
6:54 a.m.
I have a VAXstation 4000 vlc without an internal hard
disk
and a spare
RZ25-E drive. I had thought I could install the drive in the
vlc but it
seems from inspection that the vlc needs a lower profile drive.
Yes it does. I think mine came with an RZ23L in it. I swapped
in a Fujitsu 1GB SCSI drive that I had lying around.
What
drives are compatible with the vlc? If it won't work as an internal
drive, I guess I can install the RZ25-E in an external SCSI
enclosure.
Should that work with the vlc?
IIRC there's a SCSI connector on the rear so you should be
able to hook up an external enclosure and check that the console
sees the new drive(s).
I'd be surprised if *any* DEC RZ drive failed to work.
I'd expect the success with non-DEC drives to be entirely
OS-dependant (assuming you sort out the usual issues with
active termination and so on). OpenVMS V6.1 (or so) onwards
is pretty tolerant of SCSi drives ... I don't know about
the BSD family and Linux-VAX is not (yet) ready to
play with disks (AFAIK).
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org