DEC RC25 Drives

From: John A. Dundas III <dundas_at_caltech.edu>
Date: Tue Mar 4 10:42:01 2003

After digging a bit more in the manual, indeed I find the confirming quote:

"NOTE: A disk cartridge must be installed to spin up and operate the disk
drive. The fixed disk does not spin up and run without a removable
cartridge in place. The spin-up cycle takes approximately 1 minute. It
involves spinning the disk platters up to operating speed, cleaning the
internal air system, loading the read/write heads, and performing a
self-test."

Looks like I need to find an additional (possibly sacrificial) cartridge.
Any help?

Thanks,

John

At 10:43 AM -0800 3/3/03, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>--- "John A. Dundas III" <dundas_at_caltech.edu> wrote:
>> At 10:29 AM -0800 2/19/03, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> >You will not be able to spin it up without the removable cartridge.
>>
>> Is this strictly true?
>
>That was my experience in 1987. I used that fact to get the vendor to
>ship me a (free) cartridge so I could spin up the drive and get the 11/725
>working.
>
>-ethan
Received on Tue Mar 04 2003 - 10:42:01 GMT