RL02 moron?

Meaning me as the moron... I was trying to activate somebodies 11/23-RL02 system this morning and had fun cabling it up, etc. But I was not able to get the RL02 up. I was able to: Find all the power switches including the master. Read the booting sequence from the terse manual. Ensure that the RL02 was cabled to the CPU, and terminated. Get the VT100 to run the bootstrap up to the disk load point. Seat the pack and it's cover and re-close the drive. See the load light come on. Depress the load switch: The light goes off immediately. Hear 15 seconds quiet of revving up. The load light stays off. We did Not see: The load light ever flash or come back on. The Ready light never comes on. Rebooting just the CPU at this point does not change the status. Attempting to load the disk just error dumped to an address. I had used several CDC type pack drives in the early 90's, but never an RL02. Was I doing something stupid? Your help is appreciated. John A.