[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist licence - howto

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:19:20 +0000, sadness wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:46:50 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:
>>>    Displaying a size is different from talking to the disk.
>>> And what was the important thing?
>> 
>> You are persistent...it didn't talk to the disk either.
> 
> that's strange because my vs4k-60 is running out of a 18Gb scsi disk
> without trouble.
> the firmware will show the disk size as 1.03Gb but i assure you that it
> has no trouble talking to the disk, booting VMS, and it just work
> without a problem.
> 
> i have a dozen of vaxstation 4000 around here, from the small vlc to
> full loaded /96, never had problem with disk of 4Gb or more, in fact the
> smallest disk i run in this sistem at the moment is a 4.5Gb one, scaling
> up to a /96 with a pair of 36Gb in it.
> 
> maybe your /60 had an earlier firmware than mine ?

That was my conclusion. I don't have it available to check right now.

Have you trying dumping the system with a dump destination above the 4GB 
mark? That would be my worry, anyway...
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