DEC RC-25 (was )

From: David Barnes <davebarnes_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Thu May 9 20:17:38 2002

The reliability was terrible with this drive... had MANY over the years,
basically if you kept the same cartridge in the drive, kept it running most
of the time, and did not swap them with other drives, it would work ok...
but reliable???



Ethan Dicks wrote:

> --- "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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