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From: ching@amd.UUCP (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Jasmine Disk Drives
Message-ID: <4014@amd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 12:45:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 12:45:42 1987
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References: <8704172113.AA02297@jade.berkeley.edu> <375@cup.portal.com> <419@eplrx7.UUCP>
Reply-To: ching@amd.UUCP (Mike Ching)
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In article <419@eplrx7.UUCP> lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence A. Dziegielewski) writes:
>In article <375@cup.portal.com>, Samuel_gold_Goldberger@cup.portal.com writes:
>> All reports I hear, both direct from friends and
>> indirect from test reports, are positive.
>
>I have had nothing but trouble with Jasmine.  I'm on my 3rd 80 meg drive
>and the third new ROM for the drive.

There's probably a difference between the 20 meg situation (put a
ST-225N and a power supply in a box) and the 80 meg drive that has
to be integrated with a SCSI controller. My guess is that the
positive reports are from customers of the 20 meg drive. The test
methods are also reasonable for that drive since the drive was
tested by Seagate and all that needs to be tested are the cables and
the power. I'd agree that the 80 meg drive should get a bit more of
a workout before shipping but I've seen worse. I was waiting for my
drive, not a Jasmine, to be reformatted (not being able to do it
myself stinks but that's another story) and saw a tape unit shipped
that worked when daisy chained with a disk but wouldn't work as the
only SCSI device connected. The retailer waiting for the unit said
it's going to be used for backup and there'll be a disk connected,
so I'll take it anyway. I'll refrain from naming the brand since it
was not the manufacturer's decision to ship the unit.