Subject: Re: Maxtor XT-8760S -> RZ??
To: Matt Moore <moore@shemp.bucks.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@lix.polytechnique.fr>
List: port-pmax
Date: 05/21/1996 17:17:32
Matt Moore said:
> 
> 
> This may be a little off the beaten path but I'm hoping one of you
> DEC heads knows the answer to this: I have a Maxtor XT-8760S 760MB
> SCSI drive (1632 cyl.,15 hds, 54 spt) and I'd like to know if I can
> use it as a DEC RZ-Anything (56 maybe?) in a DS5000/200. I'm planning
> on installing the pmax netbsd port. Thanks in advance.....
> 

>From my dmesg (NetBSD/pmax on a 5000/200):
rz3 at asc0 drive 3 slave 0 MAXTOR P0-12S rev HB18, 1999038 512 byte blocks

This is a 1Gb drive. However, my boot disk is a DEC RZ55, so i don't know
if a decstation is able to boot on such a disk. But if the prom can load
the kernel, your drive should run fine under NetBSD after that.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIX, Ecole Polytechnique
email: bouyer@lix.polytechnique.fr
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