[Info-vax] IDE disks for Alphaserver DS10

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In article <895533687334195333.257094dennis.grevenstein-gmail.com at news.szaf.org>, Dennis Grevenstein <dennis.grevenstein at gmail.com> writes:
><VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>> 
>> As for large IDE?  I have Maxtor 6Y160P0s installed in my DS10Ls.  These
>> are 160GB drives but have an initialized/mounted logical volume size of
>> 137,438,952,960 or 137GB, which I do believe is the maximum for a DS10L.
>
>does this work out of the box? I don't care too much if only
>137GB can be used as long as it works reliably.
>Back in the days of the MicroVAX 3100, the 1GB limit was
>also a problem, that could lead to lost data or an unbootable
>system.

No but it worked out of the anti-static bag! :)

Both system disk and another (DQA0: and DQB0:) are Maxtor 6Y160P0s.  Plugged
them in and both worked as advertised.

The DS10L is serving several web sites and it is running V8.4.  No problems.
In fact, the only problem was getting an IDE cable for the second drive.
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