DEC RC-25 (was )

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu May 9 16:26:27 2002

--- "Jerome H. Fine" <jhfinepw4z_at_compsys.to> wrote:
> Also, the very last and probably least was the RC25 drive from DEC
> (probably the worst hard drive that DEC ever produced from what I have
> heard from others - never had the problem of having one myself) which
> also used MSCP.

I used to have an 11/725 w/RC25 (long story). I didn't think the drive
was all that awful. It only had one motor, so you couldn't change
cartridges without spinning down the fixed platter too, but that was
only a problem occasionally. I was running VMS 4.6 on it, but a buddy
of mine in Granville, OH, was (barely) running VMS 5.0 on it and using
his 11/725 as a boot node for diskless workstations.

What was so terrible about it?

-ethan




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