[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist licence - howto

Steven Schweda sms.antinode at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 08:13:26 EST 2009


Bob Eager wrote:

> Pretty sure my VS4000-60 maxes out at 4GB.

   I doubt it.  Show me a document with some authority.  Or
run an experiment.

> But, as I said before (and it seems to have been lost in the welter of
> comments) I wasn't suggesting that was because of 6-byte SCSI commands.
> However, 4GB would be the limit of an unsigned 32 bit integer, and I
> suspect the firmware just wraps at 4GB.

   Wraps _what_?  If it's counting disk blocks, and not bytes,
then 4GB loses its magic significance.  I've never heard of a
byte-addressable disk.



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