VMS/VAX/Alpha questions...

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Thu Oct 12 15:50:11 2000

Rumor has it that Zane H. Healy may have mentioned these words:

>Now what was the question?

Lemme simplify: Does a VAX or older Alpha box *have* to have DEC drives
installed in them for OpenVMS to work or for the boxes to actually
recognize the drive (a la Compaq, Apple & the like) or can I slap in an IBM
2 gigger and have it work?

[ The largest drive I can find for sale (reasonably) from DEC is a 426Meg,
and I was hoping for bigger, but if a 2Gig IBM (read: non-DEC) drive won't
be recognized, it's not going to do me a hill of beans worth of good... ]

Does DEC say: "You'll run that RZ25 & *Be Happy About It*", or can I run
non-DEC rommed hard drives just fine?

RZ or not RZ, *that* is the question. ;-)

Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Thu Oct 12 2000 - 15:50:11 BST

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