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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Subject: Re: Does Adoptec refuse to support its SCSI I/F for end users?
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:29:08 GMT
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- lainhart@odel.stg.TRW.COM (Mike Lainhart) writes:
- >No! It's not true! Adaptec end user support is horrid! I had a 1742A
- >that I struggled with for six weeks and spent over $50 on phone calls
- >to Adaptec user support --- MOSTLY ON HOLD and mostly just to leave my
- >phone number to promises of being called back. I WAS NEVER (NEVER!)
- >CALLED BACK! The only way I ever got to speak to a person at Adaptec
- >was to complain loudly and demand to speak to a supervisor. That works.
- *----
- I've seen enough reports like this that really make me wonder what's
- going on. Adaptec has been very good to me since I started using their
- products many years ago (when the ACB-4000 was a current product).
- They have sent me manuals gratis, copies of articles and technical
- explanations. An engineer even spent a half-hour explaining RLL to
- me (at a technical level) when the first RLL PC controllers were
- released. My recent experiences have been no different.
-
- I don't understand why some of us get great service and others report
- getting none. I do expect to have to play a little phone-tag at times,
- and sometimes you have to talk to a couple of people to convince them
- that you REALLY need somebody with more technical knowledge (this is
- true with all companies I deal with). But ultimately I've gotten
- what I needed.
- --
- Mike Berger
- Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
-