New drives in the M3100/M76

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com> It depends on what you mean by required. According to the VMS FAQ ("ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/dec-faq/OpenVMS.txt", topic VAX5, "What system disk size limit on the MicroVAX and VAXstation 3100?"): [...] Systems that are affected by this limit: o VAXstation 3100 series, all members. No PROM upgrade is available. =========== [...] Generally, as I understand it, the corruption results from the firmware writing to a too-large disk, as when a crash dump file is written. As the firmware on these machines mentions both ULTRIX and VMS, I assume that it is comparably adept at wrapping around at the 1.07GB limit and corrupting a disk with either style file system. Disks larger than this limit are fine as data disks. (I have a 4GB disk in my model 38, for example.) They also work fine as system/boot disks, until something goes wrong, and the corruption occurs. (I boot my model 38 from a smaller, safer disk.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven M. Schweda (+1) 651-699-9818 (voice, home) 382 South Warwick Street (+1) 763-781-0308 (voice, work) Saint Paul MN 55105-2547 (+1) 763-781-0309 (facsimile, work) sms(a)antinode.org sms(a)provis.com (work)