Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!iuvax!cica!greg
From: greg@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: re: QA at C=
Message-ID: <1131@cica.cica.indiana.edu>
Date: 25 May 90 20:27:55 GMT
Reply-To: greg@cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS)
Organization: IU Center for Innovative Computing, Bloomington IN
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Yes, I believe that C= does have a serious quality control problem.  My
first A2500/30 arrived at my home (after I had picked it up from the
dealer) with broken shock mounts on the Quantum, the power and hard
disk LEDs wired in reverse (power responded to hard disk, hard disk light
came on with power) and broken/deformed mounts for the '030 board.  The
dealer's only comment when I returned the machine was "They must be
putting them together pretty fast these days..."  He wasn't happy.

My second 2500 only has the problem that the 2091 cannot handle ANY but the
slowest drives in addition to the internal quantum.  From experiments that
I've done with my 2091 and those of friends or the workplace determines that,
for all intents and purposes, the 2091 (Rev 4.0 MODIFIED) is a single-drive
controller.  It simply cannot handle any of the modern large drives
(Maxtor/CDC Wren/Miniscribe have ALL been tried) if you have another drive
also connected to it.  Perhaps that's the "engineering hold" people have been
talking about for the 2091, but this really should have been caught at QA,
AT LEAST.  Since I cannot run other processes that might go for a drive
other than the one I am currently using (or risk locking up the system)
I cannot multitask on my Amiga.

I'm a long-time ('85) Amiga fanatic/owner, but stuff like this really
frustrates me...

-- 
Gregory R. Travis                Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405
greg@cica.cica.indiana.edu       Center for Innovative Computer Applications