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From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C-Ltd
Message-ID: <144.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Date: 19 Jan 90 04:33:16 GMT
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In article <1032@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Larry Phillips writes:
>[...]   I have the utmost respect for Supra. I have zero respect for the
>person who treated every customer like yet another sucker, when he was CardCo,
>C Ltd. and Linden Labs doing business as C Ltd. Supra supports their customers;
>[...]

Supra has in some ways supported me very well, but I've gotten no
satisfaction from them on one problem.  I have this big SCSI drive which
is hard-sectored at 256 bytes/sec.  My Supra 4x4 interface will not
support this drive.  When I asked a Supra technical type about it at the
Santa Clara AmiExpo, the response I got might as well have been "fuck
you, go away."  I'll readily admit that the market for this driver
feature is small.  The effort required to support it is also small.  All
they have to do is request blocks (2n) and (2n+1) from the drive every
time AmigaDOS asks for block (n).  BFD.  I was given a bunch of foofaraw
technobabble runaround by the Supra techie.  Nobody will ever convince
me that this feature is technically difficult.  The Supra tech certainly
convinced me that he and his company didn't give a shit about my
business or good will.

C. Ltd.'s driver supported 256 byte/sec drives, and I was going to buy a
Kronos controller, but I guess that's out now (no, I don't want your
used-and-unsupported Kronos/1000, unless you want to practically give it
away...)

Unless one other possibility pans out, I'm going to have to give up and
use this drive in my AT clone.  bleah.

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