From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Oct 12 10:53:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA05779 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 10:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA05765 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 10:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelv@MindBender.serv.net) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.8.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA07428; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 10:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710121751.KAA07428@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) cc: darrylo@sr.hp.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Assembling new machine In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 12 Oct 97 02:46:11 -0700. <199710120946.CAA03910@bubble.didi.com> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 10:51:35 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > * I really don't have any complaints with them, either, but they are > * basically in the same category as Bason. FWIW, I had to return a hard > * drive for repair to Quantum that was over a year old, but under what > * MegaHaus claimed was a two year warranty. MegaHaus said I had to > * handle it with Quantum, and the Quantum guy said that I had purchased > * an OEM drive that was only covered by a one year warranty, and that > * MegaHaus did this on a regular basis. Still, to Quantum's credit, > * they fixed it for free, anyway. > * > * If you want someone who will give you warm fuzzies, and take care of > * any complaint, no matter how minor, these may not be the best places, > * and you should be prepared to pay a little more. >Um, what you just said above sounds very, very bad to me. I belive I >know what I'm doing (I build disk arrays for research) but I would >never buy a drive from someone who would lie about warranty. >All IMO, of course. Which is why I now buy all my drives from Bason, and not Megahaus. Bason has never tried to mis-lead me. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix. Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C. --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------