TCP/IP for VMS 5.4

[Allison]

>
>Subject: RE: TCP/IP for VMS 5.4
>   From: "Robert Jarratt" <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
>   Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:08:18 +0100
>     To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>, <cctech at classiccmp.org>
>
>> I'd not olly say cheaper, but then you will not be limited to 153MB.
>> when yo consider that V5.4 eats the 153MB about 80% a 1gb drive is
>> very attractive.
>> 
>> Last I looked (it been a while) a SCSI adaptor such as CMD is 4-500$
>> and suitable SCSI drives are cheap.
>> 
>> 
>> Allison
>> 
>> 
>
>I beg to differ on that. I have installed VMS 5.4, with DECnet onto my
>MicroVAX II. Someone has also kindly sent me UCX 1.3 which is now also
>installed (so the original question has now been answered). All that on an
>RD53:
>
>$ sh dev dua0:/full
>
>Disk DUA0:, device type RD53, is online, mounted, file-oriented device,
>    shareable, available to cluster, error logging is enabled.
>
>    Error count                    0    Operations completed
>3761
>    Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC
>[1,1]
>    Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot
>S:RWED,O:RWED,G:RWED,W:RWED
>    Reference count               61    Default buffer size
>512
>    Total blocks              138672    Sectors per track
>17
>    Total cylinders             1020    Tracks per cylinder
>8
>
>    Volume label       "MICRO1VMS54"    Relative volume number
>0
>    Cluster size                   3    Transaction count
>136
>    Free blocks                54528    Maximum files allowed
>17334
>    Extend quantity                5    Mount count
>1
>    Mount status              System    Cache name
>"_DUA0:XQPCACHE"
>    Extent cache size             64    Maximum blocks in extent cache
>5452
>    File ID cache size            64    Blocks currently in extent cache
>3105
>    Quota cache size               0    Maximum buffers in FCP cache
>120
>
>  Volume status:  subject to mount verification, file high-water marking,
>write-
>      through caching enabled.
>
>As for SCSI and ESDI controllers, the prices I see on ebay are beyond my
>hobbyist means.
>
>Regards
>
>Rob


OK,  I'm only running three MicroVAXIIs, 7 MicroVAX3100s (2 are m76) and two
MicroVAX2000s.  FOr OSs I run VMS5.2, 5.44, 7.3 and Ultrix32V4.2.  I currently 
have 4 RD54s and 4 RD53s functional and a few SCSI drives.  Maybe the differnce
is my copy of 5.44 is is the DEC release from back then when I got the machine
(MVII GPX) as part of the severence along with all the paks.  With the full 
DECWindows plus Pathworks RD54 is pretty much full and that with swap and page
on a separate disk.


Allison