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Re: Atari warranty estimates are EXTREMELY accurate

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From: Kevin VandeWettering
Date: Wed, 11 May 1988 14:36
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In article <1718@alliant.Alliant.COM>, rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
> In article <19880504130143.5.CRAWLEY@FLIGHTLESS-WATERFOWL.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> Crawley@ALDERAAN.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (Eric S. Crawley) writes:
> ->Exactly 92 days after purchasing my SH204 hard disk, it failed to spin
> ->up.   Of course, the 90 day Atari warranty had just expired along with
> ->my drive.  The drive would start to spin up and then a relay would click
> ->in and spin it down.
> 
> a very similar thing happened to me...
> 
I have an SH204 that is 18 mos. old and going strong.  It has never
crashed of it's own accord.  I have always had very good luck with
Atari hardware.  As with any hard-disk, you can break them really easy,
but if you don't bounce them, they seem to be pretty reliable.

I don't know anything about Supra drives, but I never heard any complaints
from the people I've known that owned them.  They "seem" (sound) like
better machinery than an SH204.


kevin@kjvw
    		"If it ain' broke don't fix it"
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From: kevin@kjvw.UUCP (Kevin VandeWettering)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari warranty estimates are EXTREMELY accurate
Summary: I haven't had any trouble
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Date: 11 May 88 14:36:49 GMT
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