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From: lad@eplrx7.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Jasmine Disk Drives
Message-ID: <424@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 12:53:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 27 12:53:13 1987
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References: <8704172113.AA02297@jade.berkeley.edu> <375@cup.portal.com> <19584@sun.uucp>
Organization: E.I. DuPont Co. Engineering Physics Lab - E357/248 -  Wilmington, DE 19898
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Summary: Jasmine knows....

In article <19584@sun.uucp>, cramer%clem@Sun.COM (Sam Cramer) writes:
> In article <4014@amd.UUCP> ching@amd.UUCP (Mike Ching) writes:
> >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.
> 
> I understand that the 80 MB drive is a Quantum embedded-SCSI drive.  It 
> requires no external SCSI controller, and comes pre-formatted from the vendor.
> From what has been said here earlier, it sounds like Quantum is having some 
> problems with their microcode.  If so, Jasmine is to blame for not doing a good
> job qualifying the drive, but the actual source of the problem is the drive 
> vendor, not Jasmine.
> 
> Sam Cramer	{cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun!cramer  cramer@sun.com

 have spoken with Jasmine AND Quantum about the QC80.  They have delivered 4
 new PROMs to Jasmine in the last four months.  Jasmine still can't seem to
 get their end of it right.  Jasmine has the responsibility to qualifying
 the drives they intend to *sell* to people,  and also the responsibility of
 writing a good driver to handle the Mac end of things.  They apparently
 have fallen down on both counts.  I can't blame Quantum,  they're not
 forcing Jasmine to buy and re-sell their drives.

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