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Subject: Beware Davong!
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Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 17:29:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  6 17:29:28 1984
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From:            Computer Club SDC 

I have had the unfortunate job of having to deal with Davong hard drives.
These people have managed to give their dealers and the public more problems
than you could possibly immagine.  Take for example a 75% out of the box
failure rate (this is a great improvement over their previous 90%-95% rate).
If you happen to be lucky and get one that works, it probably won't stay that
way for long since the average life of their controlers seems to be about
4-6 months (MTBF 700 hours).  During the brief time that the stupid thing
works, most people are using Davong's Multi-OS.  That rotten piece of software
(definately a piece of something) manages to trash files systems for no
reason, give "Fatal MULTI-OS Error"s all over the place and give the mysterious
messages like "Bug #3 encountered."  I wonder how many of those there are?
If you are considering hard drives, I would shy away from these unless you
are doing a study on frustration!

- Howard