Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!mintaka!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!aland From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Opinions on La Cie hard disks?? Summary: LaCie Message-ID: <1990Feb23.062824.23318@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Date: 23 Feb 90 06:28:24 GMT References: <90053.120147AKB101@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept Lines: 28 Well, I have had mixed but positive 'events' with LaCie hard drives. I bought my LaCie, sold to me as a 70 meg when I was looking for an 80 meg drive at a good price, at the MacWorld Expo in Boston... They told me I'd have it within 7 days, and I got it almost 6 weeks later. When I got it, it only had 65 megs worth of storage... So I was disappointed, but as someone else said, Silverlining is a great utility, and I DO like the drive (it's quiet) and even their icon... So I'm not complaining. Second incident: A friend of mine bought (at my recommendation) a LaCie drive, which wouldn't work. We finally tried daisychaining our drives together (after I reset the ID# on mine) at which point we got his to work, but only while mine was hooked up and turned on. So he returned it and got his money back. Again, no major complaints. The third and final incident with LaCie drives is our school newspaper. We bought a 105 meg LaCie (which had 105 megs!) and the problem with this one was that the drive for some reason needed to be reformatted when we got it (possibly because of in the non-computer-oriented people setting it up, although they couldn't have done that much wrong. Also, it's possible that the problems were because they hooked it to a Plus. Once it was reformatted, however, there have been no problems.. -- -=Alan=- aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu