Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!bell From: bell@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mike Bell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Jasmine Blues - Cont'd Keywords: Jasmine, Lack of service, the name goes on before the quality goes in! Message-ID: <12017@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 14 Jun 89 12:24:48 GMT References: <1599@thumper.bellcore.com> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: bell@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Mike Bell) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 40 Join the club !!! I have had nothing but trouble with Jasmine 140 drives. First of all, try running a Jasmine 140 and an Apple CD rom drive together (external 140). The first time you reboot your system after attaching the drives, the Jasmine wipes itself out; every time, without fail ! I documented this and sent it to Jasmine in January; they said they "would look into it". Needless to say, I have not heard from them. Also, all three of my drives have self destructed. First, the access light begins to flash at various times in a 1-2-1 repeating pattern. Then after about a week of this, the drive starts to shut itself down and park the head while it is reading or writing a file ! One of the drives that I returned to Jasmine failed a second time. The down time on these drives has cost me far more that the money that we saved by buying Jasmine drives instead of Supermac drives. While I certainly DONT speak for DuPont, I personally have decided to discontinue all purchases from Jasmine. I have gotten too many promises from their tech support people that have never panned out. Mike Bell bell@eniac.seas.upenn.edu ******************************************************************************** Mike Bell CSnet: BELLMA%ERVX01@dupont.com Senior Engineer Applelink: D2747 DuPont Electronic Imaging Core Technology Group Can YOUR mac play FOOTBALL ???? ********************************************************************************