most vax gear has no problem with non-dec scsi disks. Personally i've not
had any problem with them. Fujitus, IBMs, Toshibas of various vintages,=20
seagate hawks, barracudas, elites, and 1480s, seagate/CDC wren 7s,=20
various micropoles (pl. of micropolis? hehe),, all have worked without=20
any problem for me in various vaxstations.=20
offhand i dont recall using a disk bigger than a barracuda 4 (4.5 gb) in
one though... dunno about wrapping around 8g.=20

isildur

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote:

> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> Antonio, how do you prepare your disk drives for your operating
> system? I seem to recall, and just had it proven for the operating
> systems for the Evil Empire, that the drive needs to be formatted
> before it can be used. Normally the hardware manufacturer provides the
> media for that purpose. Sometimes it's floppy, and a CD, sometimes two
> floppies.=20
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> I have watched NetBSD install itself on I386 branched, hardware, and
> its an interesting process. And I have watched the other related
> operating system install itself, and its an equally interesting
> process.
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> That being stated, can an IDE/ATA type drive be attached to a VAX, via
> the appropriate after-market board? Or even a non-DEC specified, SCSI
> disk drive, again via an after-market board? Remember, I am normally a
> lurker who typically uses the Intel family of neurotic hardware.
> -------------------
> Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: port-vax-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-vax-owner@NetBSD.org]
> On
> > Behalf Of Antonio Carlini
> > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:30 PM
> > To: port-vax@NetBSD.org
> > Subject: RE: largest disk in a vs4000/90
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> > > I have a 4000 60 with no ram (i.e., only 8mb), and use that
> > > as a drive formatter box.
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> > Having never formatted a SCSI disk in all my life, I guess
> > I must be missing something! Why do you format them?
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> > Antonio
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> > --
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> > ---------------
> > Antonio Carlini             arcarlini@iee.org
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