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rhyde@ucrengr.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:

>I too have had one of these drives fail on me.  Turned out to be the controller
>card.  I'll be getting the drive back on Fri.  The original drive was $800 +
>]$220 to get it fixed.  For $1,000 today I can buy a fast 512mbyte drive!
>BTW, I sent the drive to Maxtor (or whoever it was that bought out the

	Was it CSC ? If thats the way they handle things maybe I should give
up with trying to get them repaired..

>remains of Miniscribe) while it was still under *warranty*.  They sat on
>it for a year.  It took to threatening letters from a lawyer to even get
>the drive back (still unrepaired).  I turned it over to a local disk drive
>repair shop to get it fixed.  In the past 1-1/2 years I've had about four

	Can you give us a report on the local drive repairer ? They may be
a better bet than the above. Locally we don't seem to have Disk Drive fixers -
problem with having Marketing/Box pushers for the majority of the companies
out here.

>hour's total use on this drive.  I will never make such a purchase again!
>*** Randy Hyde
> 

Marc