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From: werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SuperMac XP150 drive ??
Summary: there seems to be some problem with DataFrame software (and some
	remarks about a coming MacZAP-upgrade)
Message-ID: <2694@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 05:41:00 GMT
References: <6150020@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <2891@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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> 2) It's boot sector cannot handle A/UX partitions..

my DF-20XP has been giving me some problems (again) since yesterday which led me
to visit my friend Les Herbst, author of MacZAP, to pick up the latest version
of MacZAP (best to start with all the latest tools, right? :-) ...
and he mumbled something about the DataFrame software having some peculiar
problem no other drive seems to have.  I was busy with something else at the
time, so I did not pay much attention;  but the enthusiasm I had for Dataframes,
initially, has long since evaporated anyway.

BTW, Les has revamped the ZAP-software in an amazing way and he has licensed it
to a software-publisher who will release it under the name of SUM (short for
Software Utilities M.... - I forgot, darn it) shortly (it's now beta 0.98),
and  I understand that registered ZAP-owners can get it for $30 (given that
Les handed over the registered owners list to the publisher I saw myself
motivated to fill out a registration card, something I rarely do).

Les also has the same problem I have with his DataFrame-XP20  (it sometimes
doesn't complete the boot-cycle, preventing it from coming online;
you can tell it is happening by listening to the sound it makes - just like
the old TECMARs, remember those?  the solution is also the same:  beat it or
drop it from an inch or two - no kidding)

I also join the previous poster in lamenting the support;  I no longer call
them after an experience last July;  a LONG time ago, you'd be able to
talk to someone knowledgable and have a meaningful conversation; last time
I wasted some phone-money on them, they connected me with some "new kid"
whose task it seemed to be to discourage callers by displaying ignorance.
also, the "we'll have someone call back" record was dismal.  Our consortium
store no longer sells Dataframes either ... (for what that's worth) ...