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

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] Considered booting the 3100 over DECnet from my SIMH
> installation [...]

   A pedant might say that that's not actually DECnet, but
don't worry much about it.

> [...] my SCSI CDROM [...]

   Not a very detailed description.  If it has a block-size
jumper, then you might need to set it to 512.  The right
cable is the real challenge.

> My issue now is Windows (10, XP) doesn't see the VMS Iso as a
> proper file for burning so I'm planning a Linux setup just to
> burn the CD.

   Probably because it's an ODS2 image, not an ISO-9660
image.  I seldom need one, so I know nothing, but I'm
confident that there are (free) third-party programs out
there which run on Windows and don't care.  (Or get a Mac.)

> Once I get the 3100 booted I'll check out the hard drive
> but I just imagine it'll need a fresh install.

   Plausible.  But an RZ23 is pretty tiny for VMS.  As I
recall, when I bought my VAXsta 3100 collection, most of the
RZ23 and RZ24 disks went into old Macs, where they looked
big.  I haven't tried shopping for a nice Seagate SCSI 1GB
disk lately, but I'd guess that they're either very cheap
(and/or dead) or very expensive.  ST11200N?