SCreaming RD54 aka Maxtor 2190 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Jan 2001

From: Jim Strickland &lt;jim(a)calico.litterbox.com&gt;

...
 Could you set it up to netboot and copy the disk over
before it croaks?
If it was running VMS I'd suggest clustering it.  I'm thinking the
difference
...
 in performance between having it netboot and run
against an NFS disk vs
running against the mfm drive isn't going to be all that big. 

Check and see if it has DECNET on it and copy the disk via that to
another VMS machine.  IF not then use TCP/ip to copy the disk.

As a machine you can put a lot of different disks into it and if you
netboot/mop
load it put a small disk in it as SWAP, as swapping over eithernet is
SLOW.
Also the power supply want that 30W load so you have to have a drive.

Possible drives ST225(20mb), Quatum D540(30mb), ST251(40mb),
XT21290(160mb) to name a few.  that machine can format drives!

...
 > versions as well (KA41 - KA49). Fortunately for me
the desktop VAXes take
...
 > up _much_ less room than the deskside variety,
also the drive has Ultrix32
...
 > on it and its my only Ultrix based VAX (I've
got Ultrix media for MIPS but
...
 > not for VAX). I'm guessing that if I moved the
jumper back I'd see it has
...
 > some sort of frame buffer as well, perhaps it
would bring up X even. 

It just might!

Allison