Subject: Re: quick VAXstation 4000 VLC question
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/11/2003 20:38:38
> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 11:05:54 +0200
> From: Felix Deichmann <f.dei@web.de>
> To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
> Subject: Re: quick VAXstation 4000 VLC question
>
> Dave McGuire wrote:
> > Does anyone here know offhand if the VAXstation 4000 VLC's boot ROM
> > suffers from the old "boot stuff must be within the first 1GB of the
> > drive" problem?
>
> My VS 4000/VLC boots off a 2 GB disk (VMS) without any problem. The
> drive is a IBM DORS-32160, quiet and fast enough for the VLC's very
> limited I/O.
My experience with a 4000VLC was that the boot ROM reported a 4.2GB disk
as 0.2. That is, disk size modulo 4GB. So I put a smaller drive in it.
carl
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