WANTED: RA7x Enclosure/Operator Ctrl. Panel

As I understand it, the drives won't spin up without the panel. I currently have full technical documentation for pretty much every DEC hard drive EXCEPT the RA70. One of my bosses was a field service engineer for DEC for 15 years, and the other worked for 22 years as the senior district representative for New Mexico, West Texas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada and was a storage subsystems specialist. They both agree that you need the control panel. They also both agree that I'm nuts for caring. -----Original Message----- From: Ethan Dicks Sent: Sat 2/8/2003 7:21 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Cc: Subject: Re: WANTED: RA7x Enclosure/Operator Ctrl. Panel --- John Willis <jwillis(a)arielusa.com> wrote: Are these things common/rare? Absolutely required or are they just very nice to have? I have a couple of RA70 drives I got in a box with some KDA50s. Was going to put them in my BA123 with a KA630 processor. Haven't had the chance - still using a pair of RD54s. So... has anyone tried to put RA7X drives in a CPU (not disk) enclosure? If I'm hosed, then I guess I'm in the market for a drive enclosure, too (unless there's some way to hack up an old AT-style tower case...) -ethan [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat]