Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 00:04:55 GMT References: <1991Jun21.183216.29240@news.iastate.edu> <88@ryptyde.UUCP><17300@chopin.udel.edu> <1991Jun25.164959.16960@infonode.ingr.com> Distribution: world Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 45 hychejw@infonode.ingr.com (Jeff W. Hyche) writes: >rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: > >>using(with reselection problems), and I had TWO GVP Series II HD controllers >>that both started acting flaky after a few months of use, and trying to get >>something exchanged with GVP is hard when you can not have much downtime...My > > That is not the story I have about GVP. I have had my GVP >system for awhile now and I can say I have had no problems with it. OK, I'll get my I-HATE-GVP fan club on my BBS on here and let them all tell their horror stories with their dealings...I am not alone, and it seems there are quite a few starting to pop up, including another local BBS that has ALOT of downtime because of his GVP HD controller sending his heads out of range on his Seagate hard drive(same problem I had, which started my nightmare with dealing with GVP)... >>Not only did Commodore get 20 or so 3rd party HD controllers because they >>never included SCSI in the motherboard design, they probably got 17 or so 3rd >>party controllers that wouldn't meet Commodore's quality standards if they >>decided to use them as standard equipment on a certain machine.... > > Not what the July 1991 issue of AmigaWorld says. It has a nice >review on controlers for Ami. Only two that I remember didn't meet CBM >quality standards. I have a hardframe here, they want $50++ to make it do what I was told it would do when they sold it to me...My friend has a Supra and it creates the loss of serial data when he's downloading at 2400 baud every hard drive access...I have another guy here that Supra told his autoboot ROM was put in backwards when he sent it back for service for randon crashes(like it would work if it was in backwards)... AmigaWorld takes ads from everyone they reviewed, so they may be less than objective...I hear about all the problems, so I am swayed to knock them all...and my PERSONAL experience with GVP, I realize they are the devil... -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) If I had a nickel for every time Elizabeth Taylor was married I would have $.35