VAXStation disk question

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Tue Mar 9 23:05:16 2004

> This was a DEC-owned machine, it has a DEC property/asset tag on it, and
> the drive is a DEC RZ23-E (Connor). If it's running, it's the damn

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> SO: I'd love to know what's on this HD, but it's possible to also form
> the assumption that it has gone to be with it's Honorable Ancestors and
> will not return this way again.

If it's an RZ23 the VAXstation most likely booted off of a cluster disk, and
used the RZ23 as a swap disk. The RZ23 is only about 100MB. Find yourself
a RZ25 or RZ26 and replace it. If you're going to be running V7.2 or later,
any 1GB SCSI HD should work nicely as the boot disk.

                Zane
Received on Tue Mar 09 2004 - 23:05:16 GMT