Max disc size for an AlphaStation 255

From: Milligan, Eric T. (Eric.Milligan_at_ngc.com)
Date: 03/11/05

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    Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:25:39 -0600
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

    Hello gurus -
            We have a customer who's original system disc died recently.
    We've been unable to find another 1gb drive to replace it; the smallest
    drive we've been able to purchase is an 18gb Seagate, ST318417N.

    We don't have an AlphaStation 255 in-house to test this disc with, so I
    was wondering if any of you have any experience putting larger disks in
    this machine.

    According to Seagate, that drive doesn't have any mechanism to limit the
    drive size, unlike some drives.

    According to
    http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations/retired/a255_specs.ht
    ml that machine will support up to 6.4gb discs.

    Does anyone know if that's a "hard limit" or just the largest sized disk
    that was available at the time the system was retired?

    Many thanks, 

    ---
Eric
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