Maxtor 8760s on a DecStation 3100

[Eric Fielding]

In a recent article edwards at dogie.macc.wisc.edu (mark edwards) wrote:
>We finally got our DecStation 3100 and a Maxtor 8760S hard drive. 
[...]
>We are interested in hearing from other people that use the 8760 and
>whether or not they use it as a boot device. How have other people 
>installed Ultrix on a 8760? Should we be forewarned of any other
>problems?
We have been running our DECstation 3100 off of a Maxtor 8760S since August
with no major problems.  I did not do the installation myself, someone
else did.  We started with a 100 MB internal (rz23), so he may have loaded a
small system onto that before loading the 8760, I don't know.
  
>Also if someone has a disktab entry for the rz80 or the 8760 we'd
>greatly appreciate a copy.
>    edwards at vms.macc.wisc.edu

Here is what is now in our /etc/disktab (I can't tell you anything more):

rz80|RZ80|DEC RZ80 Winchester ?:\
        :ty=winchester:ns#57:nt#15:nc#1423:\
        :pa#15884:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
        :pb#66690:bb#4096:fb#1024:\
        :pc#1216665:bc#8192:fc#1024:\
        :pd#220096:bd#8192:fd#1024:\
        :pe#219735:be#8192:fe#1024:\
        :pf#437760:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
        :pg#877591:bg#8192:fg#1024:\
        :ph#256500:bh#8192:fh#1024:


Hope this helps
			++Eric Fielding
eric at geology.tn.cornell.edu