New drives in the M3100/M76

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Mon Mar 20 14:10:16 2000

Conclusions for the archives...

It is entirely possible to put non-DEC third party drives in the VAXStation
3100/M76. I have recently installed two 2.1 GB "Barracuda" drives in them
and they are working flawlessly. The steps are:

        Install the drive, select an ID that isn't being used on the SCSI bus.
        Run the PROM based formatter on the drive using "TEST 75" to the monitor.
        Install your software on the drive.

On the M76 there is no requirement that the boot disk be smaller than 1GB
(apparently this is true on earlier models).

This looks like it will turn out to be a good NetBSD development machine as
it is reasonably fast (7+ VUPs), and reasonably compact as VAXen go.

--Chuck
Received on Mon Mar 20 2000 - 14:10:16 GMT