Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kraut From: kraut@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: More Mac prices Message-ID: <6946@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 02:37:57 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.6946 Posted: Fri Nov 27 02:37:57 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 19:20:16 EST References: <460@aucs.UUCP> <57900011@sfu_cmpt> <1275@csib.csi.UUCP> <6923@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 22 Summary: warning about Rodime-20s .... In article <6923@ut-ngp.UUCP>, kraut@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes: > ad in Macweek of Nov 17, page 45, has an ad for a Rodime-20 MByte SCSI drive > for $499 from MacProducts here in Austin 1-800-MAC-DISK. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I never trusted MacMemory .... I have since learnt that the Rodime has built-in troubles .... if you hook more than one Rodime together you get several confused Rodimes that don't know to understand different SCSI-addresses ... also the R. doesn't have hardware head-parking ... this is second-hand from a very Mac-active friend; I understand that they take the drives back if you complain soon enough, but I feel sorry for the folks that discover the problem a couple of months/weeks down the road ... if a deal sounds too good, it probably is .... -- werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (prefered address) kraut@ut-ngp.uucp (if you must)