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From: Daniel T. Burrows <dburrows_at_netpath.net>
Date: Wed Nov 18 09:38:02 1998

Depending on the SCSI board. Most of them you can boot from.
Dan


>Here's a question. I know there used to be SCSI boards for microvax IIs,
>can you boot from those? If so, wouldn't it be better in the long run to
>go SCSI, so you can just go out and buy a new disk instead of dealing with
>10-20 year old failure prone disks? I guess that brings up a question
that's
>been slowly growing to me.
>
>Is it more important to keep a classic running, or to keep it original? If
for
>example I get my hands on a VAX 8350, is it preferable to keep the big old
>disks that go with it, even though I KNOW they are way over MTBF already
>(not to mention the space and power requirements) or to get ahold of the
scsi
>card for it and put a pair of half-gig SCSI disks from a surplus house in a
>SCSI box and run the machine from those?
>
>I know there's no "right" answer, but I'm curious what folk think.
>--
>Jim Strickland
>jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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