[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[Hans Bachner]

Bob Koehler schrieb am 07.05.2019 um 14:56:
> In article <gjctpvFlceiU1 at mid.individual.net>, Hans Bachner <hans at bachner.priv.at> writes:
>>
>> On most VAXen I've seen the CD drive is painfully slow by today's
>> measures. Booting Standalone Backup from a data disk is *much* faster,
>> if making/restoring a backup is all I want to do.
>
>     TU58 anyone?
>
>     I actually did boot standalone backup from one of those once.  Just
>     once.

Sure. Took care of a 11/750 for development and two more which 
eventually were shipped as production nodes to the customer. 
Hand-optimized the position of the various files on the tape to speed up 
booting.

Extra challenge was that someone purchased the machines without a disk 
controller from DEC to save a few bucks. So I needed to supply the 
Emulex driver early enough for the VMS installation procedure to be able 
to access the system disk hanging off the "foreign" controller. Need a 
memory refresh for the details...

Hans.