> Johnny Billquist <bqt_at_update.uu.se> writes:
> > I just love the RP07 for finesse. Not that sure about reliability, but it
> > sure looks impressive enough, with that front panel, and everything... :-)
>
> I had an RP07 once. Wonderful drive - Memorex's answer to the IBM 3370/
> 3380. But the spindle drive belt failed and in the 2 days it took to get
> a new one, the heads stuck to the platters and that was the end of the
> drive...
>
> Terry Kennedy http://www.tmk.com
> terry_at_tmk.com Jersey City, NJ USA
The drive had a large number of problems early which led to its
being less than popular.
One was sticktion and a failure of the heads to retract on power fail.
The fix was a battery pack and adjustments to the HDA assembly. IIRC
The other was cost, maintenance difficulties (large heavy hda which
wasn't available in large quantities at DEC... which lead to maintenance
downtime.)
The RA81's seemed to undercut the device in price and took the market
from it in sites with HSC's and even some UDS50's got jacked on to
11/70's.
I wonder what would've happened if DEC had an HSC-CI70 that interfaced
with the Cache or Massbus bus systems on the 11/70's.
Bill
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Received on Mon May 22 2000 - 10:02:42 BST