gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson) (08/13/86)
> I really hate to say this, but the most useful information you could get > for your CMI drive would be location of your nearest landfill (or > coodinates of Core's Boca Raton reef). Believe me, no one likes a good > deal better that I, but the risks of the original CMI 20Meg drive are > not IF it will fail, but WHEN. The above is ever so true. I used to think that all this was just sour grapes. After all, my CMI 20MB had run fine for 18 months. But low and behold, almost the week after PC magazine ran an article on these beasts, my CMI bit the big one. Luckily, after monkeying with the power switch for about an hour, I got it to come up long enough to get most of my data off of it. If you decide to still use your CMI, best treat it as a large RAM disk and backup everything to floppy. Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc. (201) 922-1134, (201) 834-1378 @ AT&T-CP ..!ihnp4!castor!{rer,pcrat!rer} <--Replies to here, not to homxb!gemini, please. Happily using a Maxtor now...