[rescue] Apple 2GB Quantum Fireball ST SCSI HD

[Carl R. Friend]

    On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> "Carl R. Friend" <crfriend at rcn.com> wrote:
>
>> MicroVAXen (which have a disk-drive size limit
>> of one gig due to firmware issues)
>
> These are only a few, early models of MicroVAX 3100 and VAXstation
> 3100. It is also only a limit during boot. Put your boot partition
> within the first 1 GB and any larger disk will do.

    For some reason, I seem to recall that it wasn't so much of a boot
issue, but rather one of what happens when the machine dumps core and
the counter wraps the 1-gig boundary.  That, though, would likely be
inside VMS -- and very early VMS at that....

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