> I've heard that a VAXstation 3100m{3,4}{0,8} cannot use SCSI disks over 1gig.
>  Will it just not support partitions over 1gig or drives over 1gig?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin 

Works hunkey dorey for me :)

NetBSD 1.4P (PUTZVAX) #28: Fri Dec 31 06:10:53 PST 1999
    staylor@mod70.mrynet.lv:/ravine/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/PUTZVAX

VAXstation /m{30,40}
cpu: KA41/42
cpu: Enabling primary cache, secondary cache
total memory = 8076 KB
avail memory = 4676 KB
using 126 buffers containing 504 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
vsbus0 at mainbus0
vsbus0: interrupt mask 8
le0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200e0000 vec 120 ipl 14 maskbit 5
le0: address 08:00:2b:1a:7e:8a
le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
dz0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200a0000 vec 304 ipl 14 maskbit 6
dz0: 4 lines
lkc0 at dz0
ncr0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200c0080 vec 770 ipl 14 maskbit 1
scsibus0 at ncr0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
smg0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200f0000 vec 104 ipl 14 maskbit 3
wsdisplay0 at smg0: console (128x57, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-7 added (128x57, vt100 emulation)
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HP, C3725S, 6039> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 2047 MB, 3703 cyl, 9 head, 125 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4194058 sectors

As you can see, that's a 2gb drive.  I've also had a 4gb drive on there.

The disk is partitioned as follows:

mod70# df
Filesystem        1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a             58473    20476    35073    36%    /
/dev/sd0h            580686   154300   397351    27%    /usr
/dev/sd0d             16159     2648    12703    17%    /tmp
/dev/sd0e            148543        1   141114     0%    /work
/dev/sd0f           1178063   137632   981527    12%    /ravine


Now, that /ravine is well over the 1gb mark.  And I have indeed done 
disk checks of the entire disk using /dev/sd0c.  So, from my practical
experience, there are no limitations in the 1-4gb range.

And just for TMI, this is a workhorse CONSTANTLY doing world builds and
releases.  This machine has not crashed since brought up with the 1.4.1
with the new SCSI code.

mod70# uptime
 3:23AM  up 20 days, 20:48, 2 users, load averages: 1.64, 1.40, 1.34

And, for anyone who cares, this machine does a decent SCSI thruput:
(I stopped all the current jobs to get this, as it was busy like the uptime says)

mod70# dd if=/dev/rsd0c bs=512k count=100 of=/dev/null
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
52428800 bytes transferred in 53 secs (989222 bytes/sec)

Hopefully helping,
Skots
--
Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor     InterNet: staylor@mrynet.com
MRY Systems			        staylor@mrynet.lv
    (Skots Gregorijs Akmentins-Teilors -- just call me "Skots")
		----- Labak miris neka sarkans -----