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.