Subject: Re: RA81 problems, someone with a service manual can help?
To: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/12/2001 07:55:07
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote:

> O.K. I'm sure my problems are simply due to the heads being
> locked as they should. I'm confident I'll find the unlock
> mechanism once I opened up the hood, but I don't know how
> I open up the hood. I know how to get to the controll boards
> with the serial console connector, that's just the small
> cover with this one quarter-turn hex-key lock. But supposedly
> you can open the larger cover that hinges farther back.
> Where is that hood lock mechanism?

Look at the fron of the drive. At the bottom edge, which you have the
slot. You will see either a metal plate that can be pushed, or one or two
hex bolts that you can turn with the proper tool, and then they pop out
slightly. Then you lift the whole cover.

	Johnny

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