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Article #1106Re: Anyone have loud rz23 disks in vs3100 boxes?
From: Esther Filderman
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 14:55
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 14:55
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It seems that there is a bearing in the rz23 that wears out slowly, over time. The wear-out causes the "racket," which gets louder and louder until one day the disk dies. Fortunately, they are giving their own warning, leaving you plenty of time to back things up and get the disk replaced. [plenty of time= ~ 2 - 3 months, but the noise will drive you nuts before then!] We have 11 Vaxstation 3100s, each with 2 rz23 disks. We replace between one to two per month, which is quite bearable. Dec is always reasonable and prompt about replacing the disks as needed; our downtime is minimal. They are, apparently, very very aware of the problem. ----------------------------------- Esther C. Filderman ef1c+@andrew.cmu.edu System Mangler Computing Services Mercury Project Carnegie Mellon University
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ef1c+ From: ef1c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Esther Filderman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Anyone have loud rz23 disks in vs3100 boxes? Message-ID: <Qa8oJo_00WCTA1TVEg@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 11 Apr 90 14:55:48 GMT References: <14082@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <9012@sybase.sybase.com> <2758@milton.acs.washington.edu>, <14122@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: <14122@watcgl.waterloo.edu>