TCP/IP for VMS 5.4 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Jul 2009

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Subject: RE: TCP/IP for VMS 5.4
   From: "Robert Jarratt" <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
   Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:08:18 +0100
     To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"
 <cctalk at classiccmp.org>, <cctech at classiccmp.org>

  I'd not olly say cheaper, but then you will
not be limited to 153MB.
 when yo consider that V5.4 eats the 153MB about 80% a 1gb drive is
 very attractive.

 Last I looked (it been a while) a SCSI adaptor such as CMD is 4-500$
 and suitable SCSI drives are cheap.

 Allison

I beg to differ on that. I have installed VMS 5.4, with DECnet onto my
MicroVAX II. Someone has also kindly sent me UCX 1.3 which is now also
installed (so the original question has now been answered). All that on an
RD53:

$ sh dev dua0:/full

Disk DUA0:, device type RD53, is online, mounted, file-oriented device,
    shareable, available to cluster, error logging is enabled.

    Error count                    0    Operations completed
3761
    Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC
[1,1]
    Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot
S:RWED,O:RWED,G:RWED,W:RWED
    Reference count               61    Default buffer size
512
    Total blocks              138672    Sectors per track
17
    Total cylinders             1020    Tracks per cylinder
8

    Volume label       "MICRO1VMS54"    Relative volume number
0
    Cluster size                   3    Transaction count
136
    Free blocks                54528    Maximum files allowed
17334
    Extend quantity                5    Mount count
1
    Mount status              System    Cache name
"_DUA0:XQPCACHE"
    Extent cache size             64    Maximum blocks in extent cache
5452
    File ID cache size            64    Blocks currently in extent cache
3105
    Quota cache size               0    Maximum buffers in FCP cache
120

  Volume status:  subject to mount verification, file high-water marking,
write-
      through caching enabled.

As for SCSI and ESDI controllers, the prices I see on ebay are beyond my
hobbyist means.

Regards

Rob 

OK,  I'm only running three MicroVAXIIs, 7 MicroVAX3100s (2 are m76) and two
MicroVAX2000s.  FOr OSs I run VMS5.2, 5.44, 7.3 and Ultrix32V4.2.  I currently 
have 4 RD54s and 4 RD53s functional and a few SCSI drives.  Maybe the differnce
is my copy of 5.44 is is the DEC release from back then when I got the machine
(MVII GPX) as part of the severence along with all the paks.  With the full 
DECWindows plus Pathworks RD54 is pretty much full and that with swap and page
on a separate disk.

Allison