root@crash.cts.com (Super user) (08/04/89)
Network Comment: to #1352 by thad@cup.portal.com
I am sorry for the anonymous postings but for some reason my name is not being
carried through the systems. Hopefully that will be resolved by the time you
read this message and then there will be no question as to who I am.
I do not dispute your findings but I did feel that others should benifit from
others opinions on the subject. Hence, the posts. I hope Amiga users find
this discussion enlightening and useful.
--Bob Lindabury
PS: My signature was on those posts by the way...
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Raven Enterprises - 25 Raven Ave. Piscataway, NJ 08854thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (08/05/89)
Bob Lindabury writes:
" I am sorry for the anonymous postings but for some reason my name is
not being carried through the systems. Hopefully that will be
resolved by the time you read this message and then there will be no
question as to who I am.
"
Gee, maybe if you logged in as OTHER than:
"From: root@crash.cts.com (Super user)"
your name would accompany the postings! :-)
and continues:
" I do not dispute your findings but I did feel that others should
benifit from others opinions on the subject. Hence, the posts. I
hope Amiga users find this discussion enlightening and useful.
"
My next door neighbor benefitted; he was able to get BOTH his Macs' HDs
replaced on the present HD recall program after seeing my post of the Service
Note from Computer Plus. 'Sfunny Apple hasn't contacted their registered owners
about the problem.
One thing is clear: the problem is far more widespread than people would
otherwise believe (ref. the 690,000 bad HDs that Apple is presently replacing,
and the 500+ emails I've received from people responding to my postings in
comp.sys.amiga, comp.sys.att, and unix-pc.*). The problem is also NOT limited
to Seagate. As Douglas Peale (UC, Santa Barbara. Physics Computer Services)
implied in his posting reply, the HD manufacturers are ALL seeking better
lubricants for their platters, and the choice of lubricant is proprietary and/or
a trade-secret.
Consider the recent fiasco with Miniscribe; their platter supplier was shipping
junk (to Miniscribe) recently, and the situation was so bad there was real
concern Miniscribe was going belly-up. Only a cash-infusion by "Big Red" (who
is this? Unisys???) last week saved their hide.
Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]cliffhanger@cup.portal.com (clifford cliff heyer) (08/11/89)
"BIG RED" refers to (the last I knew) the big China "state owned" computer company which manufactures most of their hardware and software. China allegedly coined the term to counter "BIG BLUE" in the US. Maybe they want get into US disk drive mfg?
thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (08/13/89)
"Big Red" update ... many emails I've received have informed me that PR1ME Computer has been known as "Big Red" for nearly 10 years now. Thus, it "must" have been PR1ME who recently bailed out Miniscribe; in any event, the (newly manufactured) Miniscribe drives are again available in large quantities in this area (Silicon Valley); and, yes, I just bought the Miniscribe 3085 drives for my UNIX boxes. Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]