ujmurphy@KING.MCS.DREXEL.EDU (Jim Murphy) (06/17/91)
In message: <1991Jun16.161701.4249@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
(AE 3.5" Drive problem)
> I've got a problem with an AE product (suprise anybody?). My 3.5" drive
> is having problems reading disks. Last night the drive would R/W just
> spiffy fine, but then today when I access the drive, the red LED (indicates
> a disk write) lights up, apprently can't read the disk, scans the other
> devices for the volume, then I get a message saying it can't find the
> volume. I have a //e, the 3.5" is in S5 and I've got a DuoDisk daisy
> chained to the 3.5". To sum it up, I hate AE.
> _________________________________________________________________________
> | Move over Rover & |Email Addresses: Kent Squires "goo goo g'joob" |
Bitch, bitch, bitch. I've had an AE 3.5 since July of last year and I
couldn't be happier. Just because you happened to have a possibly defective
unit, you hate AE. I've purchased at least 6 AE products over the years and
I've been exceptionally satisfied with them all. That's not to say that I'm
happy with their current Apple II _policies_, but their products have been
very well built. Please keep your unproductive whining to yourself, ok?
Jim Murphy "I know that you believe you understand
Internet: ujmurphy@mcs.drexel.edu what you think I said. But I am not sure
GEnie: J.MURPHY7 you realize that what you heard is not
AOL: Jim Murphy what I meant."kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires) (06/17/91)
ujmurphy@KING.MCS.DREXEL.EDU (Jim Murphy) writes: > Bitch, bitch, bitch. I've had an AE 3.5 since July of last year and I >couldn't be happier. Just because you happened to have a possibly defective >unit, you hate AE. I've purchased at least 6 AE products over the years and >I've been exceptionally satisfied with them all. That's not to say that I'm >happy with their current Apple II _policies_, but their products have been >very well built. Please keep your unproductive whining to yourself, ok? Well, I won't keep my unproductive whining to myself, ok? Ok. My //e is filled to the rim with AE products. S1: Parallel Pro w/256k Buffer Pro. Problem: the cable the thing came with worked fine with the Parallel Pro alone, but when you attatched the Buffer Pro to it, it didn't work. I had to go out and buy a different cable. S2: DataLink 2400. No problems...yet. S3: RamWorks III 1MB. No problems yet. S4: TimeMaster ][ HO. Problem periodically gets "reset". Sometimes I'll notice a year of 45 or something like that. S5: 3.5" disk drive. Problem: mentioned in previous post. S6: Phasor. No problem except for lack of software support, but that's not really AE's fault (or is it?) S7: Vulcan 40MB. Problem: 1st Vulcan wouldn't boot. AE replaced it. 2nd Vulcan (current one I have now) has ~11 bad blocks that cannot be repaired, just locked out. I have a directory that is totally trashed on it. The CATALOG is totally goofy and shows only garbage on that subdirectory. The power supply keeps "dying". I'll be running a program and poof, the power shuts off on the Vulcan. It's not a fuse because #1 there are only two fuses (one's a spare) and the other one hasn't been fried & #2 the power dying has happend about 6 times. Another problem that I believe is the HD...ProDOS keeps getting trashed. I'll boot up, run some programs, power down, go to boot up again and ProDOS crashes. A friend of mine is having problems with a GS Vulcan randomly trashing blocks on his HD. Maybe I should have said "I hate AE _support_." They do make good products, I just wish they'd put some effort into tech support, instead of having a damn 900 number. Their tech support BBS offers no help either, they just quote what's in the manual. _________________________________________________________________________ | Move over Rover & |Email Addresses: Kent Squires "goo goo g'joob" | | let Jimi take over!| Internet: kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | | -------------------| ProLine: kents@pro-apa | | I wouldn't do it |_______ America OnLine: kents12 | | for all the farms in Cuba! | FidoNet: 233/15 Kent Squires | |____________________________|____________________________________________| >Jim Murphy "I know that you believe you understand >Internet: ujmurphy@mcs.drexel.edu what you think I said. But I am not sure >GEnie: J.MURPHY7 you realize that what you heard is not >AOL: Jim Murphy what I meant."
andy@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Andy Stein) (06/20/91)
In-Reply-To: message from ujmurphy@KING.MCS.DREXEL.EDU
Calm down, Jim. The guy was just expressing his frustration with AE's
products. I know how he feels. Applied Engineering's RamKeeper fried my
Apple 1 Megabyte Memory Card; the Sonic Blaster is noisy and doesn't play
the right (that is, not the left) stereo channel; and they're charging
customers $1.50 per minute to get technical support for products that
sometimes don't work, because its the company's own fault. The PC
Transporter and TransWarp GS are two such examples. Don't EVER yell at
someone for expressing the truth. Let's try not to be so hostile to other
users of the network.greg@hoss.unl.edu (Life...) (06/22/91)
kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires) writes: >Well, I won't keep my unproductive whining to myself, ok? Ok. My //e is >filled to the rim with AE products. >S4: TimeMaster ][ HO. >Problem: periodically gets "reset". Sometimes I'll notice a year of 45 or >something like that. I've noticed this on my Apple IIgs built-in clock periodically. Resulted in some interesting date stamps on files, like a paint program I wrote in AppleSoft. >Email Addresses: Kent Squires "goo goo g'joob" | > Internet: kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | > ProLine: kents@pro-apa | >_______ America OnLine: kents12 | > Cuba! | FidoNet: 233/15 Kent Squires | -- /// ____ \\\ "The major problem--one of the major problems, for there are | |/ / \ \| | several--one of the many major problems with governing \\_|\____/|_// people is of whom you get to do it, or more to the greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu point, who gets people to let them do it to them."