Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!uwvax!rocky.cs.wisc.edu!g-verbru From: g-verbru@rocky.cs.wisc.edu.CS.WISC.EDU (Rob Verbrugghe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Problems with CMS MacStack 60 Message-ID: <6298@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 20 Sep 88 02:42:35 GMT Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: g-verbru@rocky.WISC.EDU (Rob Verbrugghe) Distribution: na Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 31 I was recently flipping through last month's MacUser and I noticed a mail order company advertising (I forget who) something along the line of: "Our prices are Sooo low that CMS has requested that we do not print them, Call for pricing info." Having recently bought a CMS MacStack 60 (through Hardware House) I was curious to see how much I might have saved had I waited another month. 800 numbers are free, so I called. The guy quoted the highest price I had ever heard of (So much for the low price claim, it was at least $900) and then said that the MacStack 60 was 'Real Bad News.' He said that over 60% of them are returned for repair after 4 months. Something about the power supply arcing and destroying the whole unit. He then proceded (unsuccessfully) to try to sell me an Everex 40 Meg that was "a steal at only $1300, I don't know why we're giving them away like this!" (He must have been comparing it to the stuff on Apple's price list :-( I'd like to know if anyone has heard of any problems with the CMS 60 Meg External drive. I heard of a person who got shipped a bad one, but it was replaced with a new one fairly quickly. I'm convinced that this guy is a bozo, but sometimes a bozo gets lucky and actually knows something. My drive has run like a trooper so far... Mail any CMS 60 Meg hardware problems to me and I'll post to the net. Rob Verbrugghe g-verbru@cs.wisc.edu Disclaimer: "I've got a spatula and I'm not afraid to use it!" Silly Quote: Ignore me, everyone else does.