[HECnet] What started the modern VAX drive limit myth?

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 --- Filter service subscribers can train this email as spam or not-spam here: http://my.email-as.net/spamham/cgi-bin/learn.pl?messageid=558FD5B43E6811E3B…