There were eagles, and then there were super-eagles. Our experience with eagles was great, and we were eager to try the (larger) super-eagles. We soaked them for a month or so, then put them into production use. Whereupon, they started dropping like flies. It turns out the glue they used to attach the platters to the spindle slowly crept out over time, eventually coming to grief with a read/write head. This experience was wide-spread, and seriously damaged Fujitsu's reputation.

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 10:11 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 09:49:42AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> An Eagle or Eagle-II was a whole lot lighter (and physically smaller) than
> an RP06 or RP07 (or an RM series drive for that matter). It is interesting
> to hear you had problems with the Eagles. They were generally considered
> the best/most reliable of the day. The SI controller on the Vax was less
> so, although many of us in the UNIX community used them.

We ran Eagles on the Masscomps we had at Geophysics. Nothing but good
things to say about those drives.
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