9 May
2002
9 May
'02
1:17 p.m.
The reliability was terrible with this drive... had MANY over the years,
basically if you kept the same cartridge in the drive, kept it running most
of the time, and did not swap them with other drives, it would work ok...
but reliable???
Ethan Dicks wrote:
--- "Jerome H. Fine"
<jhfinepw4z(a)compsys.to> wrote:
Also, the very last and probably least was the
RC25 drive from DEC
(probably the worst hard drive that DEC ever produced from what I have
heard from others - never had the problem of having one myself) which
also used MSCP.
I used to have an 11/725 w/RC25 (long story). I didn't think the drive
was all that awful. It only had one motor, so you couldn't change
cartridges without spinning down the fixed platter too, but that was
only a problem occasionally. I was running VMS 4.6 on it, but a buddy
of mine in Granville, OH, was (barely) running VMS 5.0 on it and using
his 11/725 as a boot node for diskless workstations.
What was so terrible about it?
-ethan
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