moving the big (380meg) trident/century disk drives around ?

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From: Eric Ho
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1989 05:01

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Does anyone out there has any tips on what sort of precautions that I should
take to move those big xerox trident/century drives around (i.e. those for the
old & big removable disk packs) ?

I'm currently stuck with one of those drives and I need to move one of those
beasts to another building and I don't have any hardware manuals/docs about
that kind of drives whatsoever :-(

I called up the Xerox support people and they sounded pretty involved -- need
2 people to do the job and need to insert some sort of special stuff into the
drive before the actual exodus.  Is that really that bad ?  I thought that all
I need to do is to disconnect the cables and lock the disks (well actually
remove the disk packs from the drives), no ?  

Any pointers will be very much appreciated.  :-)

Eric Ho
Princeton Cognitive Science Lab.,	Princeton University
email = eho@phoenix.princeton.edu	voice = 609-987-2987
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regards.

-eric-

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