Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ALDERAAN.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM!Crawley
From: Crawley@ALDERAAN.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (Eric S. Crawley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari warranty estimates are EXTREMELY accurate
Message-ID: <19880504130143.5.CRAWLEY@FLIGHTLESS-WATERFOWL.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Date: 4 May 88 13:01:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 17

[I'm not one to send messages like this but this irritates me so that I
thought I should share it and possibly warn others.]

Exactly 92 days after purchasing my SH204 hard disk, it failed to spin
up.   Of course, the 90 day Atari warranty had just expired along with
my drive.  The drive would start to spin up and then a relay would click
in and spin it down.  As usual with this kind of failure, it came at the
most inappropriate time.  My wife had just put the final edits on
several long papers earlier in the day and I was planning to do a backup
after she printed them out.  So now I'm stuck with a dead SH204 that the
repair shop says they might be able to save, the repair bill that
follows, and a frantic wife.

Regardless of whether I get the data off the SH204 or not, I'm getting
rid of it and buying a Supra 20MB drive.  At least it is smaller and
quieter.  Hopefully, it will be more reliable.  I still like my ST, I
just don't have any faith in Atari hard disks anymore.