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Subject: Formatting Hard Drives on Alphas?

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Name: Tiberius
Date: July 14, 2003 at 13:40:28 Pacific
Subject: Formatting Hard Drives on Alphas?
OS: OpenVMS 7.1
CPU/Ram: 21164/533MHz/256MB

Comment:

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?

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Response Number 1

Name: Phillip D. Williams
Date: July 14, 2003 at 14:55:05 Pacific
Subject: Formatting Hard Drives on Alphas?

Reply: (edit)

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
Subject: Formatting Hard Drives on Alphas?

Reply: (edit)

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?

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Response Number 3

Name: Phillip D. Williams
Date: July 17, 2003 at 11:51:18 Pacific
Subject: Formatting Hard Drives on Alphas?

Reply: (edit)

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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