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Article #3281Re: Problems with 1Gb drives and VMS 4.7?
From: Paul Hardin
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 17:16
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 17:16
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In article <1991Mar15.131300.18910@etek.chalmers.se>, co@etek.chalmers.se (Christer Olsson) writes:
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|> I've heard some rumours that VMS 4.7 and some Qbus SCSI-controllers
|> has problems with large SCSI-drives (1 Gb or larger).
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|> Can anyone confirm, deny or explain?
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The problem is that data can potentially be lost, with drives
of formatted capacity greater than 1.073742 GBytes!
There's a front-page article on this in the March 4, 1991 edition
of "Digital News". According to the article, it affects all Ultrix
releases, and VMS releases up to 5.4.
Paul
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Speaking purely for myself...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!jethro!exodus!appserv!sun!amdcad!dgcad!dg-rtp!mavplus3!hardin From: hardin@mavplus3.rtp.dg.com (Paul Hardin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.periphs Subject: Re: Problems with 1Gb drives and VMS 4.7? Keywords: giga vms fujitsu wren 4.7 scsi Message-ID: <1991Mar18.171629.29960@dg-rtp.dg.com> Date: 18 Mar 91 17:16:29 GMT References: <1991Mar15.131300.18910@etek.chalmers.se> Sender: usenet@dg-rtp.dg.com (Usenet Administration) Reply-To: hardin@mavplus3.rtp.dg.com (Paul Hardin) Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 26