Third Party Disks for 4D/25

[Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages]

In article <1989Oct27.184925.13487 at jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ian at dgp.toronto.edu (Ian S. Small) writes:
>
>... story of 3rd party drives..
>
>But when the manufacturer breaks things that used to work (and doesn't
>offer any help in fixing the problem), that's good cause for customer
>

I'm not in the habit of defending SGI :> , but here goes:

1)  SGI offered to solve your problem originally; there is a disk
    drive (or several) in their price list.

    I have little doubt that SGI would ensure that it worked, and would
    continue to do so.

2)  You chose to save money ... you bought a drive from someone else.
    That someone else gets to save money by not offering service,
    support, quality control, etc.

3)  You blame SGI for not doing the job of #2.

This seems unfair. 

In case there is any doubt; SunManagement does not endorse this, or
any other defense of SGI (:>).


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