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- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!sgigate!sgiblab!svcs1!slix
- From: slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Controller manufacturers (was Re: Colorado Memory Systems)
- Summary: does this attitude apply to Mountain and other QIC manufacturers
- I may want to write them
- Message-ID: <706@svcs1.UUCP>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 23:25:12 GMT
- References: <h!mn#wj.hasty@netcom.com> <147@snidely.UUCP> <1992Sep5.193929@eklektix.com>
- Organization: Silicon Valley Computer Society, Sunnyvale, CA
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- In article <1992Sep5.193929@eklektix.com>, rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
- > I suspect this applies more (or only?) to the manufacturers of the little
- > cassette drives. They're in a very price-competitive market; they need all
- > the help they can get for "product differentiation". This tends to lead to
- > uncooperative behavior.
- o>
- I am wondering whether this applies to mountain. I have a Mountain Filesafe
- tape drive (DC2120) with a mach2 controller - they've been rather good in
- the past with doing things like giving me a new half-card controller for
- free, new free updates of their DOS tape software, etc., and it's a pretty
- good drive. I deeply wish to not have to go off and get an "approved" drive
- like an Exabyte or Archive as 1) it won't probably fit in my machine and 2)
- I have not the bucks to just replace this drive just so I can backup my
- bsd filesystem onto tape. I would like to use the Mountain. I hope that
- Mountain is better at releasing this information than CMS seems to be, otherwisethis will be hopeless.
-
- >These companies are not in the software business...
- They should be - otherwise when their drives end up not being compatible
- with a particular OS, people won't buy them. It's as simple as that. OTOH,
- these people pretty much have the DOS market tied up, and they don't even
- give a shit about Unix because DOS gives them all their revenue.
-