Hey guys-
   Anyone on here know much about the Marvel boxes?  I've had one for years but 
never had much time to fiddle with it.  I'm looking at the partitioning 
features.  In particular, the manual says:

Hard partitions must be on 2P boundaries
Tru64 only supports hard partitions

   However, I can confirm that you can definitely create a hard partition with 
a single CPU.  This got me thinking, and I dug a little deeper into the MBM 
CLI.  The manual seems to suggest that this is the case, but says that the 
operating system won't work correctly in that configuration.  Anyone know why 
not?

   When you create a hard partition, you specify what type of subpartition the 
hard partition can contain.  The manual says that only "soft" partitions are 
officially supported, but the CLI also allows you to create subpartitions of 
type "firm" and "semi-firm".  Does anyone know what "firm" and "semi-firm" 
partitions do differently than soft partitions?  And does Tru64 work with any 
of that, or is all of that OpenVMS-specific stuff?

   Also, on a side note, I don't suppose anyone here has a rail kit for an ES47 
or ES80 they'd like to sell, or an I/O drawer...

Many thanks in advance!

-Ben


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