| Title: | MicroVAX, VAXstation, VAX 4000 Systems |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL |
| Created: | Fri Jan 03 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri May 30 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4370 |
| Total number of notes: | 18956 |
My customer would like to connect a 23GB Disk
( SEAGATE ELITE ST423451 ) to a VAXSTATION 4000-60.
What he would like to know is:
could the VAXSTATION 4000-60 handle that Drive?
He uses OVMS 6.2.
Stephan
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 4364.1 | beats me | PROXY::J_EVANS | Tue Apr 29 1997 12:11 | 5 | |
Since the drive hasn't been qual'd, and we've never tried a 23GB drive
on it, who knows..... Right now it's not supported.
jim
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| 4364.2 | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Tue Apr 29 1997 12:53 | 4 | |
It's possible that if it doesn't work as a system disk, it may still work as a data disk, but as Jim says, it hasn't been tested. Steve | |||||
| 4364.3 | We Can Test It For Them... | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Thu May 01 1997 09:46 | 20 |
Inquire if the customer would like DIGITAL to qualify and support the drive for them. Otherwise, please have the customer ask Seagate or the drive vendor. (We charge extra for DIGITAL storage devices as the qualification and testing process -- which can be an entirely non-trivial affair -- costs us money to perform...) The VAXstation 4000 series firmware uses 10-byte SCSI commands, and can thus bootstrap system disks larger than 1.073 GB. OpenVMS V6.0 and later can also reference disks this large, though some SCSI drives will resize themselves under OpenVMS, due to differing interpretations of the SCSI standard. (The VAXstation 3100 series definitely cannot handle anything larger than 1.073 GB as a system disk. There are other system consoles with system disk limits, as well.) But this configuration is not supported by OpenVMS engineering, and has not been qualified by OpenVMS... | |||||