At 05:48 PM 10/7/97 +0100, Ewart North wrote:
>I'm told that the 9Gb discs cannot be used for booting an HP3000 but that
>they "may" in the future.

I believe the issue is not so much that one cannot 'boot' from the 9GB drives,
its that as LDEV 1, the usable space is only around 4GB due to a hardware
limitation with NIO channels (the older CIO channels had a 2GB addressable
limit for ldev 1).  So placing a 9GB drive on ldev 1 is a waste of over
half the
possible storage space....

I've not heard of any plans HP may have towards changing the hardware
channel architecture, but its certainly not beyond possibilities....



/jf
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