[Info-vax] cannot boot OpenVMS 8.2 on HP zx2000

[Hans Vlems]

On 5 mei, 13:57, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 5, 6:11 am, Hans Vlems <hvl... at freenet.de> wrote:
>
> > On May 3, 9:20 pm, Heuser <vax... at chemie.uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
> > > You have to use the IDE-cable for the hard disk drive instead of the
> > > cable for the optical drive.
> > Could you elaborate on that Eberhard?
> > I have no Itanium (yet ;-) so am not familiar with the platform.
> > The way I read your suggestion, a hard drive in an Itanium has two
> > interfaces,
> > a copper IDE and a fiber (IDE?) one?
>
>    No, there are two IDE/ATA interfaces in a zx2000.  One
> cable is labeled "optical", the other "hard".  VMS likes only
> the one labeled "hard".  If your optical drive is connected to
> the "optical" cable, then the firmware can get the boot
> started, but VMS itself can't find the disc.  If your optical
> drive is connected to the "hard" cable, then the firmware and
> VMS can both find it.
>
>    It's not a supported system, so there may be a few extra
> quirks.

OK, thanks for clarifying the issue Steven