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From: marra@samuel.enet.dec.com (Dave Marra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Noisy RZxx drives and how DEC is treating it the issue
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Date: 3 Apr 91 13:57:58 GMT
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> The new RZ24 is absolutely quite, while the RZ55 and RZ56 drives are
> still very noisy (especially the RZ55).  At this point, our local DEC
> engineers claim that this "must be a normal noise" and they are not aware of
> similar noise problems elsewhere...  Our claim is that if DEC considers such
> level of noise "normal", it must be that they never designed these drives for
> an office environment...

What type of noise are you hearing?  Can you describe the noise?  I
have RZ23,24,55,56,57's in my system(s).  The 55 is the loudest, it makes
a lot of clicking sounds when seeking (ie when doing anything other
than spinning)..

						.dave.