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From: brewer@clio.las.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LaCie 80 meg drive
Message-ID: <17000120@clio>
Date: 15 Jul 88 15:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: clio.las.uiuc.edu!brewer    Jul 15 10:49:00 1988


No!!!! PRAM is _NOT_ I repeat not the problem. I know about the PRAM thing, and
this is not it (anyway, I am running System 6.0, and it has the PRAM Fix INIT
incorporated in it. The problem here is that the guy who wrote the driver has
severe brain damage. This is such a completely obvious bug that anyone could
have found with a day or two's testing. It occurs on all flavors of Macs, even
further proof that it is not PRAM. I doubt LaCie is on the net, or they would
have responded to my flame already. Anyway if they are on the net, they
shouldn't be! They should be busy re-writing the driver so it works!!!

Oh yeah, a developer friend of mine also has a LaCie 80. Since trashing your
drive everytime you get a severe bomb is not conductive to development, he
called LaCie and gave them a (rightly deserved) hard time. They said that they
had gotten some reports about that, but couldn't reproduce it. That is the
lamest excuse for an answer I have ever heard. All you have to do it push the
reset switch and your drive is toast (temporarily)!! But, they said they had a
new version of the driver that disables the drive's RAM cache (the area in
which I hypothosized the problem lay), and so would fix it. They said they
would ship it to all customers soon. He said he wanted it FedEx'ed, so they
did. It didn't work.

And finally, I called them yesterday to see where the heck my manual and
SilverServer were. They said they had just received there shipments, and that
they had 300 backorders. Give it two weeks they said. Grrrr.


Robert Brewer
    brewer@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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