----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Ogden <kryogenix@crosswinds.net>
To: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 18:11
Subject: VS3100 SCSI


> 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?

Not really true ;-)

Your root partition shouldn't be bigger than 1G. That's becaus during boot,
the monitor program (which resides in the on board EPROMs) uses only the
short SCSI commands. After you system is booted, nobody cares anymore.

It even "can" do/work, with bigger root partitions, but it really depends,
where your bootblocks are.

But anyway, why have a root partition bigger than 1G ? ;-)

cheers,
emanuel