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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <05681177-9fca-4f27-9768-9eea4fa5799a at googlegroups.com>,
Cliff Miller <cliff52 at gmail.com> writes: 

> 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?

If the machine won't boot from this disk, you need something else to 
investigate.  Connect the disk to another machine, or boot standalone 
backup from CD or whatever and explore the other disk.

Note that the 3100 Model 30 is slow, even for a VAX.  I don't think one 
can put disks of reasonable size on it, due to some firmware limit.