20 Mar
2000
20 Mar
'00
6:15 a.m.
It is entirely possible to put non-DEC third party
drives in
the VAXStation 3100/M76.
Maybe somebody can clarify something for me. I had an 3100/M38
a few years ago and had to buy a disk for it. At the time I
bought a Quantum 210 MB drive. In order to use it with VMS
I had to get a special utility that I ran from my PC with the
drive and had to turn off the "Write-Preallocation" feature
off on the drive.
Is this strictly a VMS thing?
20 Mar
20 Mar
7:42 a.m.
I tried a quantum SCSI I had (120mb) for laughs and it works fine after
test-75, same for a bunch of other brands, some only needed to be "init"
from VMS to be useable. I have no clue as to the fuss.
I have:
1 3100/m76
3 3100/m10e
None seems to have much problem with anything I have floating around for
disks save for the 1gb limit on the /m10s for bootable system disks.
Allison
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andy Sporner wrote:
It is entirely possible to put non-DEC third
party drives in
the VAXStation 3100/M76.
Maybe somebody can clarify something for me. I had an 3100/M38
a few years ago and had to buy a disk for it. At the time I
bought a Quantum 210 MB drive. In order to use it with VMS
I had to get a special utility that I ran from my PC with the
drive and had to turn off the "Write-Preallocation" feature
off on the drive.
Is this strictly a VMS thing?
3:48 p.m.
allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
None seems to have much problem with anything I have
floating around for
disks save for the 1gb limit on the /m10s for bootable system disks.
I've 540Meg Fujitsu boot disk in my 3100 M48 there was no problem with
instalation and booting (as with two other 3rd party drives - 340Meg and
170Meg Quantums). I've tried with VMS 5.4.2 (installed from SA backup)
and now with OpenVMS 7.2 installed from original CD.
Maciek
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