Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uwmcsd1!lakesys!macak From: macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Don't buy Hard disks from CMS, they Summary: Well, _mine_ works fine! Message-ID: <429@lakesys.UUCP> Date: 28 Feb 89 15:44:25 GMT References: <636@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> <76000361@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak) Distribution: na Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lines: 27 In article <76000361@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >Actually, there was some traffic a few months ago about the CMS-60 >drives. It seems the drive is a bad design, or comes from an overly >cheap disk maker, so I would suggest -- > Don't Buy a CMS-60 disk drive!!!! (Several lines deleted.) Certainly we are going to find some users who have had trouble with CMS drives and others who have not. Likewise with Jasmine, etc. Anecdotal information like this is likely not terribly useful... the people who have had problems are the ones who tend to post messages... satisfied users tend to sit back and enjoy their drives! Nevertheless... I've had my CMS SD-60 for over a year now and have experienced no problems with it whatsoever. My understanding is that the drive (at least when I purchased it) used a Seagate mechanism. I forgot the model number, but I was told it had a 40 msec ave. access time, if that helps. There have been some negative comments about Seagate quality control, but I guess mine came out OK. Jim -- Jim Macak