Subject: Re: Large disk on a DecStation 5000/120
To: Eric Corwin <ecorwin@fas.harvard.edu>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/22/1999 10:20:02
Eric Corwin wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm about to get a large (~9 gig) disk to put in the decstation and I was 
> wondering if there are any features to look for/avoid in order to get it working
> with the hardware and with netbsd.  Am I correct in believing that I can just
> put a commodity scsi-2 disk in the machine and have it function without
> problems?  Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.

The only thing I'd be worried about would be having the root filesystem
crossing the 2GB mark of the disk.  Certainly that's a limitation of
Ultrix, and I don't know if the PROMs would have a similar problem.
Other than that, it should "Just Work(tm)".

Simon.