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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <p5l86p$kca$1 at dont-email.me>, "Zane H. Healy"
<healyzh at avanthar.avanthar.com> writes: 

> Cliff Miller <cliff52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a Vaxstation 3100 Model 30 which came with an RZ23 hard drive. 

Right.  RZ24 was about 250 (if it existed at all; rare size), RZ25 about 
500, RZ26 1 GB (the smallest disk I would consider on a VAX), RZ27 2GB, 
RZ28 4 GB, RZ29 9 GB.

> 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.

There was also the RZ23L, like in Mercedes-Benz 560 SEL, meaning a few 
more centimetres of leg room or, in this case, enough space to fit VMS 
on---but not 7.3, and probably only by using TAILOR.