On Mar 9, 22:34, Jim Strickland wrote:
> > >3. can someone answer conclusively for me whether the vaxstation
expects
> > > the disk to have parity enabled? The lists I've read don't seem
very
> > > sure.
> >
> > Not quite sure what you mean here. It expects 512k blocks, if you want
to
> > boot off the install CD.
That means that only a few CD-ROM drives will be bootable, such as Toshiba
3301, 3401, and a few old Sony drives -- and all of those will need to be
set up correctly. On the Toshibas, that means a minor internal
modification, unless you get one that was previously used on a Vax,
Sparcstation, or SGI.
> > However, I believe it will read CD's in standard
> > drives once the system is up and running.
Which suggests it knows to issue a SCSI command to set the blocksize after
booting, which almost all SCSI-2 CD-ROMs obey.
> I should clarify. Does it expect its internal hard disks to have parity
turned
> on or not?
I don't know for a Vax or VMS, but it shouldn't do any harm to disable it
on most devices. Most devices always generate the parity, and the setting
only determines whether they check it on input.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Wed Mar 10 1999 - 02:23:04 GMT