12 Oct
2000
12 Oct
'00
12:37 p.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
Rumor has it that Zane H. Healy may have mentioned these words:
Unless you require huge capacity, I've found the Quantum Pro/Lightnings
730mb work great in my VLC and M60. And they can be had for fairly
attractive
prices on eBay.
A plus with the PRO series is they are among coolest running drives.
Big improvement over the scalding hot Barracuda I had been running in
the VLC.
Nick Oliviero
Now what was the question?
Lemme simplify: Does a VAX or older Alpha box *have* to have DEC drives
installed in them for OpenVMS to work or for the boxes to actually
recognize the drive (a la Compaq, Apple & the like) or can I slap in an IBM
2 gigger and have it work?
[ The largest drive I can find for sale (reasonably) from DEC is a 426Meg,
and I was hoping for bigger, but if a 2Gig IBM (read: non-DEC) drive won't
be recognized, it's not going to do me a hill of beans worth of good... ]
Does DEC say: "You'll run that RZ25 & *Be Happy About It*", or can I
run
non-DEC rommed hard drives just fine?
RZ or not RZ, *that* is the question. ;-)