[Info-vax] History question about ODS-1

[Lee Gleason]

"Jon Pinkley"  wrote in message 
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>So evidently, if it was working on an RSX system, there must have been 
>changes
>to RSX since 1981 that allowed "large disks".

>If that happened, it is unlikely that the change ever got ported to VMS.

  Yah, I think that's got to be the case. I did a few tests INITing disks of 
assorted sizes, and VMS loses the ability to INIT and/or mount ODS-1 style 
disks around 500 MB or so.

  RSX must have gotten larger disk support that didn't make it to VMS.  Kind 
of like  of ODS-1++. Another example of RSX's superiority over VMS.

  I was fooled by the VMS MOUNT error message into thinking VMS didn't 
support ODS-1, instead of,  that  it only supports it to a certain size.

  --
Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
lee.gleason at comcast.net