On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Varga Akos Endre wrote:

> 	Hi there!
> 
> Two slightly off-topic questions (the people on this list seem to
> be good at helping me out, when I'm clueless:-)
> 
> First: is there some documentation on the web about the RL01 drives? I
> just got a PDP-11/04 system with two of these beasts. After I looked
> at the innards, cleaned it up a little and switched it on, I get the FAULT
> light, right after the power is on. The drive seems to move the disk
> spindle (or whatever it is called), then sometimes the LOAD button lights
> up too. Both drives do this, without being connected to the machine (it'll
> take some time to have the machine working...). What should I check? (I
> know, that this question is a little bit dumb, but what could I do without
> proper documentation?:)

Connect the drives to the controller. The RL-drives indicate a fault when
no controller is attached unless my memory fails me.

And this really should be on info-pdp11 and not port-vax...

	Johnny

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