10 Jul
2015
10 Jul
'15
12:31 p.m.
The RA60 is my least favorite drive to move. The thought of disassembling
it crossed my mind but since it was being slid into a rack with a shelf and
not on rails it would not have helped much, so just picked it up, carried
it over and shoved it in.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:22 PM, tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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From:
tony duell
> I find [RL0x's] easier than RK05s Try taking out an RA81!
I did an R80 (not much lighter) single-handedly.
The trick with those is to take the HDA out. It takes only a few minutes.
Raise
the logic chassis (top part of the case including the front panel), then
lock the
heads (you MUST do this anyway), release the belt tension (lever at the
front
right), then unplug 3 cables (2 small ones on the front of the HDA and a
40 way
ribbon from the PCB on top), take off the 4 mouting nuts and lift the HDA
up and
out. Then tape the spindle pulley so it doesn't turn when moving the unit.
If it turns
backwards it is likely to damage the heads.
The rest of the drive (chassis, PSU, motor, logic PCBs) is just about
liftable fully
assembled.
I think the worst is the RA60. It's very heavy and it is a pain to
dismantle. You have to take it
apart a little bit at a time.
-tony