[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist licence - howto

Bob Eager rde42 at spamcop.net
Sun Dec 27 15:09:09 EST 2009


On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:30:28 -0800, Steven Schweda wrote:

>    As a little FAQ reading should reveal, the problem is not
> with the OS, it's with the firmware using short-form SCSI commands,
> which wrap at 1GB.  (Some older VMS versions have an OS limit at 8GB.  I
> recall no 4GB limit anywhere.)

The 4GB limit I referred to seems to be firmware only. Not the SCSI 
commands, but I suspect just the use of unsigned 32 bit values.

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