ghs@mordred (Gregory H. Smith) (10/05/85)
I have recently seen queries over the net about PC's Limited hard disks for the IBM PC (20 meg hard disk advertised for about $500.00 with controller). I have some words of caution about prospective buyers. I purchased a 20 meg disk for a Zenith Z-150. I was concerned about it being compatable with the Zenith since the advertisement was for PC's and questioned the salesman about it. He assured me that they were compatible and that they had been checked out for the Zenith by their technical support section without any problems. Based on that I bought the disk. After installation I booted the machine and got a "grinding" noise from the 'A' disk (sounds like the heads are doing very rapid forward and backward seeks) but the hard disk booted. My suspicion is that there is some incompatibility between the hard disk (or its controller) and the boot diagnostics that the machine runs. To make a long story short, I called PC's limited tech support and they said "we've never tested the disk in a Zenith, you should never have been sold the machine", they passed me to the salesman who said "I've sold lots of them without any problem", he passed me to customer service who said (in so many words) "it's your problem". The hard disk works fine but my 'A' drive is slowly being destroyed each time I boot the machine. The bottom line is caveat emptor, let the buyer beware. Greg