[Info-vax] Exploring a hard drive on a new Vaxstation

[Zane H. Healy]

Cliff Miller <cliff52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Vaxstation 3100 Model 30 which came with an RZ23 hard drive.  I
> access the system with a serial console cable.  The system boots to the
> >>> prompt and self-tests just fine.  When I try to boot from the hard
> drive, however, it returns "File not found." I am reluctant to initialize
> the drive and start from scratch as I am curious to see what was on it. 
> What are my options for being able to explore the hard drive?

That's a 121MB Hard Drive.  My memory says that it never had an OS on it,
rather it was probably used as a swap drive, and the system was booted from
another system in a VMS Cluster.

I don't remember what the minimum disk size is for VMS v7.3, but I don't
believe it will fit on that.

Zane