DEC RC25 Drives

Back in the VAX 11/725 days I used to have several such systems. All were quite reliable, evidently contrary to experience on the list. At 10:29 AM -0800 2/19/03, Ethan Dicks wrote: Is this strictly true? My very vague memory recalled that it was possible, though the removable door had to remain closed while the internal drive was spun up. I recently acquired one [and the controller] for my 11/73. I do have one and only one pack. This pack does have data that I would like to reacquire, therefore I am unwilling to put it in the drive until I have some way of proving the drive clean and functional. [Can't accept crashing the removable.] I have not been able to spin up the disk so far, thus lending evidence to Ethan's assertion above. John