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Schroeder, Aaron writes:
 > The 5305 was released by Digital as the "NT only" machine. Although it has
 > SRM on it, it was only "certified" to run NT.
 > In the Digital world, this first started with their StorageWorks products,
 > but the RAID in the white casings was certified as "NT only". The blue and
 > brown bricks were certified for all 3 platforms Digital worked on, NT, VMS,
 > and Digital UNIX.

At least for some of the NT only boxes, the SRM was hacked to use a
negative hwrpb->rpb_type.  This allowed them to easily prevent Tru64
and OVMS from running on it.  We just multiply by -1 when we find one
of these..

Drew

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