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- From: aa443@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Szarek)
- Subject: AutoDoubler Worth
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.011417.4099@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: news@freenet.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Reply-To: aa443@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Szarek)
- Organization: The National Capital Freenet
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:14:17 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- For $20 sure is. But some programs may not like AutoDoubler. Off hand I
- can't list any but I had a lot of trouble with various INITs and
- ONLocation. If you ever decide to use SyQuest Cart. drives look out when
- dismounting the cart. Weird things happened to me.
-
- FifthGen. would not want
- to admit that thier software was giving me problems (this pissed me off)
- with my SyQuest drivers. I used my original drivers from ETC Peripherals,
- SCSI Probe and SilverLinning and each driver had problem with AutoD when
- I ejected the drive and powered it off the SCSI bus. NO, I'm sorry but the
- SCSI experts told me this is safe since the bus will "know" the drive is
- no longer available. It seems the AutoD can't figure this out.
-
- I still feel their product is good but not the greatest. BTW SpaceSaver
- doesn't suffer from the SyQuest forget-me-and-cripple-the-mac syndrome.
- Explain that! I'm pinning my hopes for my compression needs on Stacker
- for the Mac since it is installed at the HD driver level and not
- patching into/above the Mac OS.
-
- Finally, ever since Salient was taken over by Fifth Generation, I
- noticed that service was not good. I never had my calls returned, was
- forgetten several times and was never even offered an upgrade to the
- lastest version AutoD. I sure missed it when Salient was running the
- show.
-
-
- Alas this is only my beef. I'm sure others had a better experience.
-
- Rob
- Land Software Engineering Centre
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- Robert A. Szarek
- NCF/National Capitol Freenet
- Ottawa, Canada
- aa443@freenet.carleton.ca
-