Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!hao!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!sdcsvax!nosc!humu!uhccux!cm450s02 From: cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (Jeff T. Segawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: CMS Experiences Message-ID: <1316@uhccux.UUCP> Date: 15 Dec 87 19:57:41 GMT References: <57900016@sfu_dipper> Reply-To: cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (Jeff T. Segawa) Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu) Lines: 22 In article <57900016@sfu_dipper> mcdonald@sfu_dipper.cs.sfu writes: > >First of all, for those people who don't like to spend a great deal of time >reading notes, I will summarize this one--STAY AWAY FROM CMS. > Darned shame you had such problems with the CMS's products. The odd thing is that I've had a Seagate based 20 meg on my Mac II, (since relocated to the Mac II) for about 8 months and have had no problems. I've been using version 3.2A of the utility software and have had no problem with lost sectors, though the very early software (the stuff that said "by CMC") did seem kind of flakey. As I understood it, some of the internal drives, like the Pro 80, were intended to be bolted directly to the metal platform that also holds the floppy drive USING SPACERS. If the spacers were missing, it would account for the fact that the screws seemed much too long. The person answering the phone told you to buy the drive to find out who's mechanism they were using? Tacky. I've never tried getting phone support, rather I go via MACUS (on Compuserve). Charles McConathy of CMS does go through the message section frequently, and has been very helpful as far as software updates and Mac II installations go. Why the person answering the phone should have been so secretive as to what drive was being used is beyond me, since CMS's current full color ads clearly show that (in the case of the 80's, anyway) they are using a Quantum.