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From: jmb@sgi.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SCSI HD Errors
Message-ID: <2510@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 21:26:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 21:26:10 1987
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Keywords: SCSI, Hard Disk, Peripheral Land
Summary: Speaking of Peripheral Land ...

In article <18095@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, cohn@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Ted Cohn) writes:
> I just experienced a strange sort of disk crash recently and I wondered
>                                               ....  I called Peripheral
> Land, and was greeted by a lot of "sorries" and "there's-nothing-we-
> can-do's" so you might as well "reinitialize your disk."  Yikes!  
> 
> ...
>
> Ted Cohn
> ARPA:  cohn@cory.berkeley.edu

Just a side note on Peripheral Land.  I've had a SCSI disk and streaming
tape from them for about a year now.  While their hardware seems allright,
their programmers couldn't program themselves out of a paper bag.  In
addition, I've found their support small to non-existent.

I'd recommend to anybody considering buying a product from them that you
find somebody who'll sell you a cheaper disk with decent software support.
Note that Peripheral Land doesn't bother to tell you prices in their
ads - just remember "expensive".

Jim Barton

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