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The Question is:
I purchased a Personal Workstation 500a (I saw your article about running
OpenVMS and UNIX) and I want to run a Hobbist 1 user OpenVMS machine away from
the University so that I can try things at home that I can't do at the
University. The problem is tha
t when I tell the AlphaBIOS to go to the SRM console for OpenVMS, the two hard
disks that are on the SCSI card disappear and no matter what I've tried so
far, I can't get SHOW DEV to see any hard disks on the SCSI. If I run ECU, I
can get back to AlphaBI
OS and it see's the disks. If I power cycle back to the SRM console, the disks
are gone. I have even gone so far as to remove the SCSI card and the hard
disks and the SRM concole still tells me that there is a SCSI card installed
with no hard disks. Wh
at am I missing? Is the SHOW DEV dynamic or am I getting info. that has been
written to the flash ROM? Basically, I have no interest in running Windows
NT. I got this machine to have a testing ground for OpenVMS. I would love to
resolve this problem b
efore I destroy this machine (either by accident or by intent from frustration)
Any clues? Any suggestions?
The Answer is :
Please see other existing discussions of this topic here in Ask The
Wizard -- this particular hardware configuration is not officially
supported for use with OpenVMS, and may or may not function.
The Personal Workstation -a series systems were sold for use (only)
with Microsoft Windows NT.
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