From: Bart Zorn [B.Zorn@TrueBit.nospam.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 2:09 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Installing V7.3 on Personal Workstation 500au

"Theo Jakobus" <Theo.Jakobus@iaf.fhg.de> wrote in message
news:3B794E56.3000100@iaf.fhg.de...
> Bart Zorn wrote:
> > It is not entirely true that you need a SCSI CD ROM to boot OpenVMS on a
PWS
> > 500au. However, there are many variants of the 500au and some do boot
from
> > the IDE CD (dqa0 or dqb0) and some don't. Maybe someone who really knows
> > about the PWS could explain something more!
> >
>  From "Version 7.3 Release Notes page 4-5":
> If you are using the Compaq Personal Workstation 433au, 500au, and 600au
series
> systems, you can boot OpenVMS Version 7.3 from an IDE CD-ROM if the
controller
> chip is a Cypress PCI Peripheral Controller. You cannot boot OpenVMS with
an
> Intel Saturn I/O (SIO) 82378 chip in your configuration. You must use a
SCSI
> CD-ROM if the Intel SIO chip is present.
> To determine which IDE chip you have in your configuration, enter the
following
> SRM console command: SHOW CONFIGURATION
>
> In my 500au is a Toshiba CD-ROM and I'm lucky there is the Cypress chip.
So I'm
> able to boot the CD.
> I have added an Acer 910 CD-ROM to the IDE channel so I'm able to have the
> "Online Documentation Library" which consists of 2 CDs really online.
> I've added an IBM 34330W (4.2GB) hard disk to the internal SCSI channel
which
> doubles the disk capacity (originally there is a RZ2CC-KA).
>

I must be getting lazy reading the release notes! Thanks!

Bart Zorn