VS4000 hardware questions

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Fri Dec 21 16:45:05 2001

> Yep. It's the top drive that's gone. It looks, from the way the power &
> SCSI cables are "settled", like that drive was recently pulled, too.
>
> Doc

Try and find an RZ28 for your primary disk and put your swap on the RZ24.
Might even be worthwhile to get two RZ28's for it. A 2GB disk like the RZ28
will hold most stuff you need on a OpenVMS/VAX system. Shoot, I've got a
really nice 10k RPM 9GB drive on my PWS433au for a system disk and even with
all the software that's installed I still have tons of room for it (the data
is all on RZ29's in a BA350).

Does the VS4000/60 have a CD-ROM drive? If not something like a RRD42
should suffice nicely. If you've access to someplace with a lot of old SCSI
CD-ROM's, just look for one that supports 512-byte blocks. You need that to
boot. Something like a TLZ06 4mm DAT drive would be a nice complement to
the system as well.

I've got a VS4000/60 it's an excellent system to have if you're most
interested in running VMS on a VAX! BTW, if you want to expand your disk
capacity a BA350 works great on one.

                        Zane
Received on Fri Dec 21 2001 - 16:45:05 GMT