Re: NetBSD/vax

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 17:08, David Cooper <davecoo%marmotking.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> I know that those models of VAXen don't like SCSI drives over 2GB because of
> the set of SCSI commands they understand.

To clarify (in case it helps anyone :) providing only the first 2GB of
disk is used everything should be fine in all cases.

More than 2GB should be usable once the kernel has loaded and its
driver is being used - so keeping the boot blocks and partition from
which the kernel is loaded within the first 2GB is sufficient
(typically this just means the root partition, but you can do wacky
things like have a small boot partition under 2GB and then a huge root
partition for everything else - unix doesn't stop you from doing dumb
things as that would also stop you from doing clever things :)

David