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In article <BARRY.92Aug8111328@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu>, barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort) writes:
> In reading Chaim's FAQ, I was surprised to see a paragraph toward the
> beginning that said that the PRO could handle the RD53 71MB hard disk.
> 
> Can anyone verify this?  Does it matter if I am on a PRO 350 or 380?
> Does it matter if I am on P/OS or Venix?  
> 
> I tried to put an RD53 in a PRO and got an HD diagnostic message upon
> power up.  
> 
I have a RD53 in my PRO and it works fine. I'm running P/OS
2.3 ( Don't quote me, I know that it's 2. Something) and I did
have to trick it to load the disk.

Initially, I tried to install directly to the RD53 but the DEC
installation software was smart enough to check the disk and
refused to do anything with the RD53.

I then reinstalled the origional RD51 and performed the full
installation, which went smoothly.

I then used a RX50 bootable BRU disk. This backups the RD51
onto RX50's. I backed up the disk. This took several boxes of
RX50's. 

I then switch back to the RD53, and again booted the BRU disk
asking it to restore from the RX50's to the hard disk. Well,
BRU really did not care about the hardware, just if I wanted
it to format and initialize the disk. This is useful if you
had to replace a defective disk. I said YES and it went ahead
formatting the RD53 and restored all the RX50's.

I then booted the PRO with the RD53. I came up as it should,
but even with the OS & a couple languages installed, I had
over 100K free blocks of disk space!