need some advice on some VAX boards ... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Oct 2001

On October 5, Brian Knittel wrote:
...
   I believe the
first voice-coil drvie in that family was the ST-4096,
 but I'm not positive of that.  That was one nice drive.  
 A nice drive? You must have gotten the one that worked. I ran
 into 5 or 6 of them, and after a couple of months, every one of
 them failed, as did their warranty replacements. I only found
 one that ended up being useful for several years (as a door stop).

 They sounded like chain saws. 
  Hmm, interesting.  I installed about two dozen of them in customer
machines with no problems.  They were all relatively close together
time-wise; I suppose I got lucky and scored a batch from a good
production run.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD