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

[Bob Koehler]

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.  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.

   Might.  I can recall running VMS 6.x on one, and the space wasn't as
   tight as I expected.