Greetings All:

The RA81 is working!  Replaced the optical pickup and the
spin error disappeared.  The VAX boots VMS 4.4 (well, there's
a problem with that but that's for another forum).

First I want to get the existing system operational.  Then
I'll work on installing NetBSD.

Thanks everyone for your help!

Regards,
Jason Brady  jrbrady@mindspring.com   Lynnwood, WA