[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist licence - howto

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Bob Eager schrieb:
> 
>> Most 50 pin SCSI will do, but there's a maximum capacity (probably 1GB 
>> or 4GB). I wrote a program to 'downsize' some old disks I had that 
>> were a bit too big.
> 
> People say it's 1GB due to firmware limitations
> (so once popular disks like the ST51080N
> and the IBM DPES31080 will work).
> But, strangely enough, I could install Ultrix
> on VS3100 /M38 and /M30 models on 4 and 2GB disks,
> respectively.
> So maybe those limitations hurt VMS, but not Ultrix?
> 

It will probably "work" as long as you (or the OS) tries to
access (write) to some place > 1GB. At that time, the
write will wrap-around to the beginning of the disk.