> ----- 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

Further historic chatter on this subject is in the archives at:
	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/1997/07/01/0004.html

And from the microvax FAQ I found at 
		http://anacin.nsc.vcu.edu/~jim/mvax/mvax_faq_text.html

   8. FAQ. What is the largest disk I can put on a mVAX.
      Ans. The system disk is limited to 1 gig (there is a addressing
      limitation in the boot prom.) Non-system disks are limited to 8 gigs.

This may have been a VMS limitation at one point, but certainly not with
OpenVMS 7.2 which I run as well,  I have both 1.5 and 4gb drives on a 
Vaxstation, and a 1.5gb VMS drive on a MicroVax II.

I don't believe the 8gb limitation to be correct anymore either, but I
don't have tangible proof of that.

Regards,
-skots
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