[Info-vax] VAXStation 3100

[Dave Froble]

On 1/16/2019 1:04 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
> OK, this one probably isn't plainly written anywhere in the
> docset but I'll bet most of the people here will have a good
> guess.
>
> While I could run them diskless from the Infoserver I fear
> the performance would be pretty bad, even for a VAX, with
> more than 1 doing it, so.....
>
> What is the smallest size disk one would recommend for
> VAX/VMS 7.3 and all the layered products the Hobbyist
> Program provides Keys for?
>
> And, I guess I need to go get a current set of Hobbyist
> PAKs as I am sure when I fire up the boxes in a few
> minutes here I will find them all expired.  :-)
>
> bill

Honestly, VAX VMS will get by with a 1 GB disk.  Personally, I would not 
go smaller.

I'm not sure what layered products you're planning for.  I guess you 
might find enough to exceed the disk capacity.


$ sho dev/full dka0

Disk DFE90A$DKA0:, device type DEC DSP3107LS, is online, mounted, 
file-oriented
     device, shareable, error logging is enabled.

     Error count                    0    Operations completed 
  2605940
     Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC 
[SYSTEM]
     Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot 
S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W
     Reference count              211    Default buffer size 
      512
     Total blocks             2091144    Sectors per track 
       83
     Total cylinders             3150    Tracks per cylinder 
        8

     Volume label            "VMS072"    Relative volume number 
        0
     Cluster size                   1    Transaction count 
      208
     Free blocks              1254515    Maximum files allowed 
   522786
     Extend quantity                5    Mount count 
        1
     Mount status              System    Cache name 
"_DFE90A$DKA0:XQPCACHE"
     Extent cache size             64    Maximum blocks in extent cache 
   125451
     File ID cache size            64    Blocks currently in extent 
cache    128
     Quota cache size               0    Maximum buffers in FCP cache 
      332
     Volume owner UIC           [1,1]    Vol Prot 
S:RWCD,O:RWCD,G:RWCD,W:RWCD

   Volume Status:  ODS-2, subject to mount verification, protected 
subsystems
       enabled, file high-water marking, write-through caching enabled.

$ syh
OpenVMS V7.2  on node DFE90A  16-JAN-2019 17:01:55.68  Uptime  130 11:29:12

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