Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 23:15:21 +0100 (CET) From: Marc van Woerkom <van.woerkom@netcologne.de> To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com Cc: ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, se@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios Message-ID: <200002202215.XAA96608@oranje.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20000220214139.A77280@titan.klemm.gtn.com> (message from Andreas Klemm on Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:41:40 %2B0100) References: <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> <20000220214139.A77280@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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> http://www.snogard.de/ > ABIT HOT ROD-66, U-DMA-66 Controller, PCI, retail, incl. Kabel > 69,00 DM I bought that one there. Snogard is 30 bike minutes away from my office. Had some mixed experiences with them so far.. They offer a Ricoh MP-7060S 6/4/24 CD-RW drive there, which I bought (bulk version) at the same day. However mine did not initialize properly after power up (~2 of 3 ties). When I hunted for more recent firmware on the RICOH pages I found out that my drive was not a MP-7060S, but a RW-7060S! The firmware update from 1.2 to 1.7 thus rejected that drive. email to Ricoh customer support yielded that I got an OEM drive, and for these I have to contact the OEM manufacturer. In my opinion "OEM" == not having the Ricoh label on the front and "bulk" == out of the box, not package, no extras. I then phoned Snogard for the opening times and was pissed when I arrived to find out that customer support closed an half hour earlier. More, the sales droids pointed me to sign that said that I can only exchange stuff immediatle within 7 days - no word on this on the back of the bill. :( Next day I went there again to exchange the drive. After a fruitless argument about bulk vs OEM (these guys cleverly did only write "7060S" on the bill and not "MP7060S" or "RW7060S") I decided to not ask for a refund (which would cost me 10%) but to deliver it in for replacement. I still wait for that one. On the other hand, I bought the Tekram SCSI controler and a Mustek 1200 CP Scanner (no idea if this one works with FreeBSD and the parallel port driver :) at the ATELCO shop in the inner city of Cologne. This place seemed far worse than Snogard the last time I visited, but this time they really had good stuff, fair prices and sales people with clue. As they also have the "we exchange it immediatly only within 7 days" policy, I have to relativate my grudges against Snogard a bit. My resume so far is that these discounters have to be approached with a good bit of paranoia. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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