Brian,

Here are a few other sites I have found useful:

http://seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu/www/vms_sheet.html
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/9999/vms_beginners_faq.html
http://www.yrl.co.uk/~phil/vms/vms_tutorial.html

I'm running OpenVMS on a Vax 4000-500 that I toted into the office.
It has 10 DSSI drives!  Still not running NetBSD on it, although I 
have netbooted it before.

Doug


On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Carlini, Antonio wrote:

> Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> >does anyone have the URL to a good "Intro to VMS for the End User" as well
> as
> >a good "Intro to VMS for the Fool Stupid Enough to Admin a VAX"
> 
> http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/index.html
> 
> >also, i added two of the 1GB disks just to fart around.  the one goes "chug
> >chug chug" every once in a while, even though as far as i can tell it isn't
> >being used (not that i have a huge clue about VMS remember) so i offlined
> it.
> >is this the HDD drive telling me something is wrong?
> 
> Many hard drives of that period do this - it's almost certainly
> thermal recalibration. Used to be a problem if you wanted to stream
> data off them (for example, when writing CDs) since it sometimes
> gets in the way by happening at an inconvenient moment.
> 
> Antonio
> arcarlini@iee.org
>