Thomas Dzubin wrote:
> Sorry, not really a NetBSD question, but more a DEC/VAX question...
> 
> I'm wanting to move a couple of disks from my Storageworks BA35x shelves
> to the internal shelves of my 4000-105, and I'm having a mess of a time
> figuring out how to disassemble one of these green self-contained little
> boxes without completely destroying them.
> (note, I *DON'T* mean how to remove the shelf from the 8-slot BA35x box,
> that's pretty simple...what I want to do is get at the actual physical
> RZxx disk inside the nice pretty plastic green shelf)
> 
> There are two tabs on each side and I can seem to wedge them all in,
> but the top&bottom of the shelf don't want to separate...do I need
> to somehow take off the front (grey) panel first?
> Obviously I can remove the drive by completely destroying the shelf and
> forcing the two halves apart and breaking all the tabs, but I'd rather
> not do that.
> 
> Does anyone know if there is an easy way "into" these shelves?  Or
> were they just assembled in a way that they were never meant to be
> disassembled and I just need to wedge a crowbar in there and let the
> plastic pieces fly?  :-)
> 
> Thomas Dzubin
> VAX & PDP guy
> Calgary, Vancouver, or Saskatoon.  CANADA
> 
> 
> 

Judging by your follow up message you sussed out that it just takes a
lot of force to release those tabs! Once inside the tricky part I found
was removing the jumper block from the drive without damaging the ribbon
cable thingy that's attached to it. I ended up with three new disks for
my MicroVAX, but no chance of reusing the Storageworks boxes which would
have been handy for the Alpha at work.

Chris