Maxtor 760M drives in Ultrix

[Robert Myers]

In article <3955 at helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs at epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:
>In article <7633 at bunny.GTE.COM>, krs0 at GTE.COM (Rod Stephens) writes:
>< In article <2529 at dogie.macc.wisc.edu> edwards at dogie.macc.wisc.edu
>(mark edwards) writes:
>< >I was told the largest hard drive that Ultrix could handle was DEC's
>< >RX55 (a 300M +) drive. Is it possible to use something larger, say 
>< >Maxtor's 760M drives?
>< 
><I talked to a Trimarchi sales guy recently. They advertise a 300+MB disk
>< ...
>< would only use a ~100MB disk or a ~300MB disk as a boot device. Apparently
>
>Well, we have a Maxtor 8760 on our Vaxstation II and it boots fine on it.

Our only drive in our VAXstation 3200 is a Maxtor XT8760E (760 MBytes
unformatted) with a Dilog controller.  When I installed Ultrix 3.0, it
identified the drive as an RA80.  I agonized over this for a while,
finally deciding to let the installation continue.  I ended up with
an RA80 with 1,271,400 sectors, instead of the "standard" 237,213.
So, with the default partition table, partitions c, f, and h are
longer.  It's been working fine for a couple of months now...

Raul Rathmann
raul at sdnp1.ucsd.edu
(Using and abusing this account in lieu of R. Myers)