Subject: Re: 3100 disk drives
To: Rick Copeland <rickgc@calweb.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/01/1997 14:14:36
On July 1, you wrote:
> I just got a 3100 M38 and it has no hard disks or floppy disks in it.  Could
> someone tell me what drives will work in the 3100?

  I've used *many* different kinds of SCSI disks in 3100s.  The only
real restriction seems to be that booting from drives >1gb in size
usually doesn't work.  I believe this has something to do with 12-bit
commands in the rom monitor.  For non-boot drives this doesn't seem to
be a restriction.


                             -Dave McGuire
                              mcguire@neurotica.com