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From: DEGROOT@HWALHW5.BITNET (Kees de Groot, el.3557 [DEGROOT@HWALHW5])
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Subject: 8700+8600+785=one8085 one ONE common system disk ?
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Date: Mon, 27-Oct-86 09:29:00 EST
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At the moment we have three VAXes forming a cluster in the following way:

VAX785 + VAX8600        common system disk      VMS 4.3
VAX8700                 separate system disk    VMS 4.4

As soon as possible we want to have all three beasts on one common
system disk together forming a cluster running VMS 4.4.
DEC can't tell us if a VAX8700 can be clustered on one common system disk
together with our (old-fashioned?) other two VAXes.
There seems to be a reason that an 8800 can't be run that way.

I have two questions now:
a.      Can we safely upgrade to VMS 4.4 and use one common system disk
        for the 3 VAXes?
b.      If not, why not?

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