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From: bjornl@milton.u.washington.edu (Bjorn Levidow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Syquest Removables: Good or Bad?
Summary: Flakey!
Keywords: Syquest
Message-ID: <9914@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 90 18:41:08 GMT
References: <Yb98DTC00UhW42OUlK@andrew.cmu.edu> <98@genco.uucp>
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I've had a PLI infinity drive for 3 years now and I've had a number of
problems with it, none of which were irreperable.  First, the drive would
just cut out in the middle of operation and hang my mac as soon as it tried
to access the drive.  If I got it back up befoe a disk access, I could
remount it (Using SCSI tools INIT). I had to hit the drive quite hard on
it's side to get it up again, though.  I eventually sent it back to PLI
who found nothing wrong with it and sent it back.  It worked for 3 months
and then exhibited the same behavior.  I found that I could open up the drive,
tighten all of the cable connections and press the chips and terminators into
their sockets, the drive would work flawlessly for the next couple of months.
That's where I am today, and because the drive is flakey, I don't keep
anything vital on it.  Hopes this sheds some light on the MacWeek articles.