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From: mueller@alphard.cs.utk.edu (Carl Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Miniscribe hard disk won't spin up
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Date: 21 Dec 89 09:46:45 GMT
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Thanks to all who responded.  I took the drive back to the place where I
bought it, hoping to get some help, and they traded it for a Rodime drive.
This was a pleasant surprise, and now I have a working SCSI hard disk drive
system (even if it's only 10 meg).

For the Amiga people I'd like to share my experiences with some mail-order
dealers.  I was looking for a SCSI controller for my A500 and decided upon
the Supra interface.  I called MCS since I had had a good experience ordering
some software from them earlier.  This time I was to be disappointed.

They told me that the controller plus the game I also ordered were in stock
and would be sent right away.  Nearly three weeks later, I call (on Monday)
to find out what happened.  They told me that the order had been out of stock
but was shipped last Friday.  Next week, with no package, I called again.
This time they said that they would get the controllers in a couple of days,
but that my game had been shipped already.  Next week, still no package, I
call again.  No controllers yet, they say, and my game should arrive any
time now.  I cancelled the order.

I placed a new order from Lightspeed.  They told me the controller would be
out of stock for five days, and asked whether I wanted the game shipped now
or with the controller.  I asked for the latter option, and in a little over
a week the order arrived.  I even got a better price than MCS had.

In short, MCS thumbs down; Lightspeed thumbs up.

Next question to ponder:  Who has the best price on a Mitsubishi DiamondScan?
(also, how many Diamondscan models are there, anyhow?)

-Carl Mueller (mueller@alphard.cs.utk.edu)