21 Aug
2002
21 Aug
'02
9:03 a.m.
chris wrote:
Well, one day, Rodime shipped Jasmine an entire lot of
defective
drives (and not a small lot, like thousands and thousands of them).
Jasmine, sold these off, after packing them up, and doing their basic
burn in. But the defects wouldn't show up until the drives had been
run for some time... then Kapow... drive would die. Of course, this
would happen about 60 days into good use, right before the 90 day
warrenty expired.
Nasty...
Suddenly Jasmine found themselves with many an angry
customer,
wanting a warrenty repair on their drive. More than they could afford
to handle. So they tried to push the problem off on Rodime (after
all, it was their drive that died), but Rodime denied responsibility,
saying Jasmine bought the drives, and it was their problem to test
them, and make sure they were good.
*!!!*
That's the sort of thing that would make me want to call my lawyer...
Two good things came of this... 1: Rodime folded not
long after
because of similar problems (from what I understand at least, I know
they closed, and I know they had a massive run of drives they sold to
the public go out while under warrenty). So they pretty much got
their just dues.
Surprisingly enough Rodime are still around. They're operating
under a new
name and they've switched markets. They no longer make HDAs, they sell
licenses to use their patents...
2: A few of the Jasmine techs got together and formed
a company, that
was one of the first in a soon to grow industry of Data Recovery
services of hard drives. They formed the company "Drive Savers" which
advertises to this day in the back of most Mac magazines.
And I thought Ontrack
were the first...
the 80 MB Rodime/Jasmine that was the
original, made a very nice wind chime).
:-)
I bet the HDA casing would have made a nice ashtray...
Anyone ever heard of a now-defunct drive maker called Kalok
--
Phil.
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