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From: alan@ahmcs.uucp (Alan Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Noisy RZxx drives and how DEC is treating it the issue
Message-ID: <169@ahmcs.uucp>
Date: 5 Apr 91 07:47:24 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.040610.28745@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Distribution: comp.sys.dec
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In article <1991Apr3.040610.28745@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, levanon@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jacob Levanon) writes:
>     We have several DECstation 3100 with RZ24, RZ55 & RZ56 drives.   Since the
> time we received the machines, we have claimed that the drives are too noisy. 
> DEC was willing to replace the drives once, however only the RZ24 replacement
> worked. 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...

Isn't the RZ55 (6?) a Maxtor 8760S ?  As I recall, both motor and head movement
are relatively noisy by comparison to the Conner RZ23.
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