18 Jul
2001
18 Jul
'01
1:47 a.m.
Jeffrey S. Sharp WROTE:
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Ticking time bomb. Someone decided to use
a(n allegedly) cheaper glue even though the
spec more or less said "do not substitute".
The result was that a fair number of RA81s
failed early in service.
They have a bad reputation.
Antonio
In some ways he should be paying you to remove
the RA81's!
They're *that* common? 
18 Jul
18 Jul
9:50 a.m.
Jeffrey S. Sharp WROTE:
All the pre-REV G (*IIRC*) HDA's were ECO'd out of existance back in '86
when I worked at DEC... so they should be no problem today.
Also, the pre REV F (*IIRC*) ones had the correct glue. Nothing like
some dweeb skipping the do not substitute line and causing DEC millions
in $$ in lost sales, field service overtime, overnight and quicker
shipping.
Damned near killed the company... and probably was done by Robert
Palmer so he could dismember it and sell it off.
Bill
(bitter as hell about it)
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Ticking time bomb. Someone decided to use
a(n allegedly) cheaper glue even though the
spec more or less said "do not substitute".
The result was that a fair number of RA81s
failed early in service.
They have a bad reputation.
Antonio In some ways he should be paying you to remove
the RA81's!
They're *that* common? 
11:58 a.m.
Jeffrey S. Sharp WROTE:
Well, there is that, however, what I was refering to is the fact that
they're D***** heavy! A lot heavier than I want to deal with! Plus they
suck up a lot of power, and take a lot of rack space. I prefer a couple
boxes of RA7x disks, they take about the same space as one RA81, probably a
little less, and you can have up to 8 disks between the two boxes, my
second choice would be RA90's.
Of course my real preference is for a SCSI controller, hence my PDP-11/44
has RL02's and a SCSI controller. Though my MicroVAX III has a KDA50 with
RA72's and RA73's and a RLV12 controller for RL01's and RL02's.
Zane
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Ticking time bomb. Someone decided to use
a(n allegedly) cheaper glue even though the
spec more or less said "do not substitute".
The result was that a fair number of RA81s
failed early in service.
They have a bad reputation.
Antonio In some ways he should be paying you to remove
the RA81's!
They're *that* common?
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