Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!chinet!aicchi!dbb
From: dbb@aicchi.UUCP (Ben Burch )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Tulin 50 meg HD
Keywords: : HD, Inexpensive
Message-ID: <8@aicchi.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 88 14:43:19 GMT
Organization: Analysts International, Chicago Branch
Lines: 21

From:    Ben Burch

To:      All                                      Msg #108, 12-Oct-88 23:06:18
Subject: Tulin 50 meg HD Kit

Well, I ordered the 50 meg drive kit that Tulin Corp., San Jose CA was
advertising in Computer Shopper.  The kit arrived after a delay of less than 10
days.  It was, if anything, the most over-packaged thing I have ever received.
There were so many styrofoam "peanuts" and other foam cushions in the box that
it would have been hard to damage it if you tried.  The assembly instructions
were adequate but required several readings before all steps were clear.  One
step required that the activity LED be clipped from the controller board and
that the wires from the front panel LED be slipped over it's leads, but the
leads were so short that soldering was required. Curiously, the system shipped
with it was unable to bring up the disk, but a stock copy of system 6.0, with
their formatter, was quite happy to initialize it.  Also on the distribution
disk was a SCSI accelerator INIT.  This does not work.  Don't use it.  In my
case, it would freeze the system during multi-file copies.  Also be aware that
the driver does not support tags, so undelete utilities will probably not
function.  All-in-all, I think that this was a well spent $599, but there is
still room for them to improve.