16 Mar
2010
16 Mar
'10
12:47 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
When you say "a small-ish drive", what counts as "small" for VMS? Or
rather, what sort of drive should I be looking for to /not/ have to
muck around when installing it?
My hope is to get the machine booting into DECwindows. I don't plan to
use it as a server, more as sort of glorified X-terminal if anything.
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 11:28 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Booting a VAXstation
On Mar 15, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
I have found such CD-ROM drives to be both plentiful and cheap at local second-hand
stores. ?Since they won't work with a PC, they have 'no' value....
I have installed the core of VMS and booted from a small-ish drive, but you rapidly run
out of space. ?-- Ian 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