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From: paul@speedmetal.engin.umich.edu (Paul Killey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECstation bootable off RZ5x (650meg) disks?
Message-ID: <1989Dec18.215840.11854@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 89 21:58:40 GMT
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Reply-To: paul@speedmetal.engin.umich.edu (Paul Killey)
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We are booting and running 3100s off Maxtor 200M, 380M, and 760M disks
-- none of which are supported by dec, at least as far as I know.  We
have machines that have various combinations of these disks ... two
200M disks, four 760M disks, two 760M and two 200M disks, etc. and they
all do fine.

I understand that there may be problems with other vendors' unsupported
disks.  Like, that some unsupported drives are *really* unsupported
drives.

It strikes me that dec engineers did a pretty good job in doing the
scsi interface, and that it is somewhat strange that dec doesn't go the
extra (probably tiny) distance and just try some of these things out so
that customers and local dec office people at least have a clue about
what works better and what works less than better.
"Don't call me baby when she's waiting in the car."