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- From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:32:50 GMT
- Subject: Re: IBM Disk and HP 9000/700
- Message-ID: <28510303@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hplextra!hpcc05!hpbbn!hpuamsa!franks
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- References: <1992Jul27.082009.26871@dxcern.cern.ch>
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- xexeo@dxlaa.cern.ch (Geraldo Xexeo) writes:
-
- >The solution was: there is no way. We even contacted HP, and they
- >said they don't and will not support IBMH12 disks as boot devices.
- >
- >The interesting part is that, HP does not support IBM disk, Exabyte cartridges
- >and probably other items I will discover soon. They really don't seem to have
- >as the best costumer service in the market.
-
- I fail to see what HP not supporting a non-HP disk/tape as a *boot*
- device has to do with the quality of our customer service.
-
- For a boot device it probably means "it can not work", i.e. the
- required code is not present in the HP boot firmware. If so, then it is,
- perceived or real, lack of functionality instead of bad customer
- service (For me "customer service" normally translates to "after-sales
- customer service". If to you it only/mainly means the "information
- provided in the pre-sales phase", they the jury can be still out, i.e.
- it depends on what you asked and which information HP gave in return.).
-
- If the non-HP disk/tape can/should work as a boot device, but does
- not, then :
-
- Probably no company *supports* (as in "If you can not get it to work
- then we will get it to work (at no charge)") peripherals which they do
- not sell.
- That many peripherals do work, and that the system supplier will *try*
- to help you (perhaps at cost) when they do not, is quite another thing
- than what most people call "support".
-
- Frank Slootweg, HP, Dutch Customer Response Center
-