port-vax: RE: Where can I find a SCSI bootdisk for a VAX station 3100

Subject: RE: Where can I find a SCSI bootdisk for a VAX station 3100
To: Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate! 12-Mar-1997 2033 +0000 <carlini@marvin.enet.dec.com>
From: Bertram Barth <bertram@ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/13/1997 11:38:20

> 1. VAXstation 3100s (any flavour) cannot reliably boot from drives bigger
>    than about 1.07GB - the console SCSI driver built into ROM uses 6 byte
>    commands to talk to the drive. No firmware fix is available (not even
>    internally for mission-critical machines, like the VS3100-76 on my desk :-)
>    Data drives are fine (because by the the OS has booted).

Unlike VMS this problem can easily be avoided when using NetBSD:
If the boot/root partition is completely within the ROM-addressable area, 
then the size/location of the other partitions doesn't matter and the
complete disk is available to NetBSD.

Ciao,
	bertram