DEC RRD40 CDROM Drives

From: Eric Dittman <dittman_at_dittman.net>
Date: Tue Apr 24 16:43:43 2001

> I have one and I am very happy with it. Why people are talking bad about
> it I can't understand. Sure it isn't fast and has a strange caddy, but
> it is _very_ reliable IMHO. Once the disk is in, you won't get any read
> errors or timeouts or some such. I have installed operating systems on
> several VAXstation 3100s with other SCSI drives and with the RRD40, but
> while with other old non-DEC SCSI drives I sooner or later always got read
> errors or timeouts, installing with my RRD40 always worked first time
> without problems.

I used to use one a lot, and I would sometimes get errors reading
disks. I hated loading and unloading the caddies, too.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Tue Apr 24 2001 - 16:43:43 BST

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