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Formatting Hard Drives on Alphas?
Name: Tiberius Date: July 14, 2003 at 13:40:28 Pacific OS: OpenVMS 7.1 CPU/Ram: 21164/533MHz/256MB
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I've been at a loss as to how to format hard drives on Alpha AXP systems. It is difficult to get support in this area. My drives are SCSI, and I had our company buy a couple new larger-capacity drives a couple years back, just in case. But I haven't been able to figure out how to format them for VMS. Any answers?
If the drive is going to be used for storage then the only thing you need to do is init the drive ie $ init/label=whatever dkXXXX You really dont need to format a drive under VMS.
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Response Number 2
Name: Tiberius Date: July 15, 2003 at 16:31:30 Pacific
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However, the newer drives are either not formattaed, or they are formatted differently from what my system expects. I think it probably has to do with what Windows would consider "large disk support". INIT won't work in this case. Is there any other way, short of XXDP?
What are the sizes of the drives?? What company makes the drives? Do you get any error and if so what does the error say?? When you do show dev at the >>> what does it show?? I added some 18gig Seagates to a VAX 3100-40 with no problem. Phillip
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