[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist licence - howto

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:13:26 -0800, Steven Schweda wrote:

> 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.

It's just a theory. I'm talking about internal counting, not talking to 
the disk.

My observation is simply that it reported a DDRS-34560 as a very small 
disk indeed. When I modified the disk to report a size fractionally 
smaller than 4GB, it then reported that size.



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