Learning About Your System; Hard Disk Drives - DEC VAXstation 3100 Owner's Manual

3
Learning About Your System
This chapter provides information about:
• RZ23 and RZ24 hard disks
• RRD40 compact disc drive
• Tape cartridges
• TZ30 tape drive
• Mouse
3.1 Hard Disk Drives
A hard disk stores information on a nonremovable disk. You
can have up to three hard disks in your Model 48 system imit.
The RZ23 has 104 megabytes of storage, while the RZ24 has 209
megabytes of storage.
RZ23 and RZ24 hard disks are mounted internally in the S3rstem
unit. Additional disks can only be added if there is available
space. Tb determine the number of disks in your system, enter
TEST 50 at the console prompt, then press the Return key.
Your system configuration is displayed on the screen. It lists
the storage devices mounted in your system. An example
configuration display can be found in Section 7.3.
You can increase your system's storage capacity with the RZ55
hard disk expansion box and the RZ5x-xx series of hard disk
expansion boxes. See Chapter 4 to leam about expansion boxes.
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