On 28/10/2013 19:27, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> writes:
Hello,
Does anyone have an image of VMS ConDist documentation for bookreader
circa 1992 please? I have the March 1992 ConDist but no corresponding
documentation CD. I'm running VMS 5.5.2-H4 on a 4000/90 which looks
great using VWS:
http://wickensonline.co.uk/images/irc.gif
I'd be interested if anyone has earlier ConDist's as well please - to be
archived on SLAVE::
Thanks, Mark.
I do. I might even have some duplicates.
Cite a month and year and I'll dee what I can find for you.
Hi Brian,
The Condist I have here is March 1992.
Thanks a lot, Mark.
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Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> writes:
Hello,
Does anyone have an image of VMS ConDist documentation for bookreader
circa 1992 please? I have the March 1992 ConDist but no corresponding
documentation CD. I'm running VMS 5.5.2-H4 on a 4000/90 which looks
great using VWS:
http://wickensonline.co.uk/images/irc.gif
I'd be interested if anyone has earlier ConDist's as well please - to be
archived on SLAVE::
Thanks, Mark.
I do. I might even have some duplicates.
Cite a month and year and I'll dee what I can find for you.
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Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
>Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> writes:
There we go - found it:
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/541
Hoff seems to have every bit of VMS arcana squirreled away on his site. :)
Check
Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> writes:
There we go - found it:
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/541
Hoff seems to have every bit of VMS arcana squirreled away on his site. :)
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Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> writes:
Afternoon all,
What started that myth? I've managed to get a 146G drive working in a
VAXstation 4000/60 (10,000 RPM, too!). Unless I did my maths wrong, it's
showing up as 136G as a FILES-11 volume(~700M in SHOW DEVICES at the
tripel chevron prompt)
There also seems to be no 1G boot drive limit on this as my boot drive is
about 4G.
Was this a limit that existed in earlier VAXstations?
VMS, generally, doesn't have any issues unless you're booting the system
with older built-in controllers. Even then, if you can organize the VMS
files needed for bootstrap, you can probably boot from a larger system
drive too.
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:58:57 -0400, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Was this a limit that existed in earlier VAXstations?
As others have already pointed out, the limit was in some 3100 models ROM.
The good news is that there is a famous patch for those ROMs. Here it is:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/vms/ka420/
He is the guy who also patched VAXstation/MicroVAX 2000 ROM and VAX PKDRIVER
in order to use the internal SCSI "tape controller" for disks too:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/vms/pk2k/
HTH, :)
G.
AFAIK it's not a myth for the microVAX 3100 series, except the models 8x and 9x. The same for the VAXstations 3100. The VAX 4x00 models and the VS4000s have no limit, at least not today.
The limit is a little over 1.0 GB btw.
Large capacity SCSI drives usually have SCA interfaces. So a converter is required to match the 50 pin connectors in a VAX. Not all converters work and the faulty ones fed the myth, I think.
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Afternoon all,
What started that myth? I've managed to get a 146G drive working in a
VAXstation 4000/60 (10,000 RPM, too!). Unless I did my maths wrong, it's
showing up as 136G as a FILES-11 volume(~700M in SHOW DEVICES at the
tripel chevron prompt)
There also seems to be no 1G boot drive limit on this as my boot drive is
about 4G.
Was this a limit that existed in earlier VAXstations?
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http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
There we go - found it:
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/541
But it's on the 3100. The 4000 seems to be okay.
Ian
On Oct 26, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> wrote:
I seem to recall reading somewhere (but I'm unable to find the reference at the moment) that there was some event that caused a problem. Something like a system crash or bugcheck, which causes a ROM routine to be called which will dump RAM to disk for later analysis. The problem is that the ROM routine has a maximum size issue, and it may wrap around and overwrite a lower section of the hard drive.
I really wish I could find the reference, though...
Ian
On Oct 26, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
Afternoon all,
What started that myth? I've managed to get a 146G drive working in a VAXstation 4000/60 (10,000 RPM, too!). Unless I did my maths wrong, it's showing up as 136G as a FILES-11 volume(~700M in SHOW DEVICES at the tripel chevron prompt)
There also seems to be no 1G boot drive limit on this as my boot drive is about 4G.
Was this a limit that existed in earlier VAXstations?
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
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