New drives in the M3100/M76

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Mon Mar 20 15:42:13 2000

I tried a quantum SCSI I had (120mb) for laughs and it works fine after
test-75, same for a bunch of other brands, some only needed to be "init"
from VMS to be useable. I have no clue as to the fuss. I have:
 
1 3100/m76
3 3100/m10e

None seems to have much problem with anything I have floating around for
disks save for the 1gb limit on the /m10s for bootable system disks.

Allison




On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andy Sporner wrote:

>
> > It is entirely possible to put non-DEC third party drives in
> > the VAXStation 3100/M76.
>
> Maybe somebody can clarify something for me. I had an 3100/M38
> a few years ago and had to buy a disk for it. At the time I
> bought a Quantum 210 MB drive. In order to use it with VMS
> I had to get a special utility that I ran from my PC with the
> drive and had to turn off the "Write-Preallocation" feature
> off on the drive.
>
> Is this strictly a VMS thing?
>
Received on Mon Mar 20 2000 - 15:42:13 GMT