edwards@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (mark edwards) (10/12/89)
I was told the largest hard drive that Ultrix could handle was DEC's
RX55 (a 300M +) drive. Is it possible to use something larger, say
Maxtor's 760M drives?
This is for a DecStation 3100, VAXstation 3100, 3200 if that makes any
difference.
thanks,
mark
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edwards@vms.macc.wisc.edu
UW-Madison, 1210 West Dayton St., Madison WI 53706grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (10/12/89)
I'm currently using a 730Mb Wren V, and Ultrix is very happy with it. So, yes, you can probably use the 760Mb drive.
chris@wugate.wustl.edu (Chris Myers) (10/13/89)
In article <2529@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> edwards@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (mark edwards) writes: > >I was told the largest hard drive that Ultrix could handle was DEC's >RX55 (a 300M +) drive. Is it possible to use something larger, say >Maxtor's 760M drives? wuarchive.wustl.edu is a DECstation 3100 with two Imprimis (CDC) Wren V disks (600M each, formatted) and an Exabyte (2GByte 8mm tape backup) and it works perfectly. We have just ordered a third Wren V and are trying to get our greedy little hands on one of the new Imprimis Elite disks (1.5G) for testing purposes. Chris Myers Internet: chris@wugate.wustl.edu Software Engineer BITNET: chris@wunet.bitnet Office of the Network Coordinator UUCP: uunet!wugate!chris Washington University in Saint Louis Phone: +1 314 362 6186
krs0@GTE.COM (Rod Stephens) (10/13/89)
In article <2529@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> edwards@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (mark edwards) writes: > >I was told the largest hard drive that Ultrix could handle was DEC's >RX55 (a 300M +) drive. Is it possible to use something larger, say >Maxtor's 760M drives? I talked to a Trimarchi sales guy recently. They advertise a 300+MB disk for around $3,400, a 600+MB disk for around $4,000, a 1.2GB disk for $6,500, and a 2.4GB disk for $???. However, he said that Ultrix 3.1 and lower would only use a ~100MB disk or a ~300MB disk as a boot device. Apparently it checks the number of cylinders and all that hardware stuff. He said after that the other disks worked fine. In fact, they sell a combo called the DataStation 1000 which includes a 300+MB disk (to boot from) and a 600+MB disk in one package. Rod Stephens GTE Laboratories, Inc
envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) (10/14/89)
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rmyers@net1.ucsd.edu (Robert Myers) (10/17/89)
In article <3955@helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes: >In article <7633@bunny.GTE.COM>, krs0@GTE.COM (Rod Stephens) writes: >< In article <2529@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> edwards@dogie.macc.wisc.edu >(mark edwards) writes: >< >I was told the largest hard drive that Ultrix could handle was DEC's >< >RX55 (a 300M +) drive. Is it possible to use something larger, say >< >Maxtor's 760M drives? >< ><I talked to a Trimarchi sales guy recently. They advertise a 300+MB disk >< ... >< would only use a ~100MB disk or a ~300MB disk as a boot device. Apparently > >Well, we have a Maxtor 8760 on our Vaxstation II and it boots fine on it. Our only drive in our VAXstation 3200 is a Maxtor XT8760E (760 MBytes unformatted) with a Dilog controller. When I installed Ultrix 3.0, it identified the drive as an RA80. I agonized over this for a while, finally deciding to let the installation continue. I ended up with an RA80 with 1,271,400 sectors, instead of the "standard" 237,213. So, with the default partition table, partitions c, f, and h are longer. It's been working fine for a couple of months now... Raul Rathmann raul@sdnp1.ucsd.edu (Using and abusing this account in lieu of R. Myers)