Dear Managers,
We've been suffering with two 1G disk drives in our 3000/600
server. I finally convinced the powers that be to purchase a 4G for /
and /usr and a 9G (probably Seagates) for /usr/local and /usr/users.
Thanks to a recent posting by Oyanarte Portilho I now know how to
install the 4G, but I've been hearing rumors that the 3000/600's can't
handle 9G drives. The rumors come in two flavors: 1) DEC won't
support a 9G (we have a hardware contract, so this matters), or 2) a
9G won't even work in a 3000/600. We've contacted several different
people both inside and outside DEC and received conflicting answers.
Any comments, suggestions, experience? Will the 9G really be a
problem or not? System info below.
So long as I'm posting, here's one from my nuisances list: I
installed version 6.8.4-2 of MH (Mail Handler). We'd been running
v6.8.3 without difficulties. 6.8.4-2 seems to mess up the timezone
information in the header (as you can see from the header to this
message). We should be -0500, not some huge positive number. All
other mail agents on the system get this right, so it's not an OS
problem. I'm guessing it's a 32 bit/64 bit thing in the MH code, but
before I go mucking in the code, has anyone seen this or have a patch?
Larry
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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu Westfield State College
(413) 572-5294 Westfield, MA 01086 USA
PGP public key available at:
http://garfield.wsc.mass.edu/dcis/griffith.html
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System information
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Hardware: Model 3000/600
Operating System: Digital UNIX version 4.0B with DEC jumbo patches.
Probably going to 4.0D this summer.
Turbochannel and fast (but apparently not wide) SCSI (default config)
MH configuration file:
# _at_(#)$Id: MH,v 1.7 1990/04/06 09:44:31 sources Exp $
# a 4.2BSD VAX system running SendMail
bin /usr/local/bin
bboards off
etc /usr/local/lib/mh
mail /var/spool/mail
manuals standard
mandir /usr/local/man
chown /sbin/chown
curses -lcurses -ltermlib
cc cc
ccoptions -taso -g
ln ln -s
mts sendmail/smtp
ldoptions -taso -s
ldoptlibs -lbsd
pop on
popdir /usr/local/etc
options RENAME FLOCK SYS5DIR ZONEINFO VSPRINTF APOP DPOP POP2
options POPSERVICE='"pop3"' RPOP FOLDPROT='"0700"' TERMINFO
signal void
sprintf int
options BSD43 BSD42 DUMB MHE MHRC MIME MSGPROT='"0600"' DBMPWD OSF1
options WAITINT BIND FLOCK UNISTD RPATHS
editor /usr/bin/emacs
Received on Mon Mar 23 1998 - 18:07:41 NZST