info-vax (12/05/82)
>From Weinstock@CMU-CS-C Sat Dec 4 17:16:08 1982
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To: Info-Vax@SRI-CSL
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Remailed-From: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow <Geoff5 at SRI-CSL>
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The company I work for is planning to purchase a Vax 750 and run VMS and some
flavor of Unix. We would like to use a spare RP06 that we have as the only
disk drive on this system (it is not going to be a major user system). We had
heard informally that this is possible without much (any?) trouble. Today, our
DEC salesman informed me that VMS on a 750 does not support the RP06 as the
system device. Do I believe him (he wants to sell us a disk drive I think)?
Also, I presume that at least some flavor of Unix supports the RP06?
I am not yet on the INFO-VAX mailing list, so please respond directly.
Thanks.
Chuck Weinstockinfo-vax (12/16/82)
>From D.BROWN@SANDIA Tue Dec 14 02:06:18 1982
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To: weinstock@CMU-CS-C
Cc: info-VAX@SANDIA
Remailed-Date: 15 Dec 1982 2308-PST
Remailed-From: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow <Geoff5 at SRI-CSL>
Remailed-To: Info-VAX@SRI-CSL: ;
We have a VAX-11/750 with only two RP06 disks, one of which is the system
disk. It was bought as a dual RK07 system, but recently we removed the
RK07s in favor of some RP06s we were replacing on a 780. It took an RH750
MASSBUS adapter, which we bought under the guise of a dual-access kit, but
there were no problems with either the hardware or software (we run VMS
only). Perhaps the confusion arose from that fact that there is not a
system package available from DEC with a 750 CPU and an RP06 disk.
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