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Another PC. Another superstation drive. Another
hacked off sucker......
I'm starting to blame CompUSA for selling this
stuff! They entice you with the low price of the drive (and the hidden cost of
the tapes!) As I type this, I'm listening to the thing shoe shinning a tape
in it's 14 hour formatting process....God only knows what it's doing in the 500
or so reads of the tape it makes!
I can not think of any other device in my
years as an IT professional that does not get driver updates and patches
released for it, escpecially when it is blatently obvious that it needs
them.
I don't think there is problem listed on your web
site that I have also not experienced....
Tried it under windows 95 and 98...agree that the
Backup software lacks a lot of stuff, no, let me say that again, the backup
software is near useless. Tried it under Linux...did get it to move the
tape...but that was the end of the tape....it's now in the scrap heap as it
screwed up the header section and wouldn't format!
Had lots of seek errors....of course, they only
happen when you actually want to restore something....they never seem to happen
when your backing up to warn you something's up....even if you verify the
backup.....
I notice this evening that the Sony site has added
a small link to W2K drivers for the drive....I'm not tempted....
To the average Joe Bloggs, 175 dollars for the
drive, and a further 200 dollars for two packs of three tapes each, it's an
expessive bit of nothing!
Why, oh, why was I sucked in to it's advert, that
fateful day in CompUSA??????
It's a perfect advert to why SCSI came
about!
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