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In the 28 years that I've known Hale, I have never seen him BS anyone. As a matter of fact, I've seen him go way out of his way to get the facts straight. 01/10/03 12:28:31 PM, Thomas Colligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This message is from the T13 list server. > > > > >You get what you pay for. If an individual buys junk, an then complains >about their junky CD drive, then Duh! Again your back pedaling. In some >circles it is called BS. > > > >> From: Hale Landis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Hale Landis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 22:03:36 -0700 >> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [t13] ATA Drive firmware update. >> >> This message is from the T13 list server. >> >> >> On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:45:58 -0800, Thomas Colligan wrote: >>> This message is from the T13 list server. >>> You really do not know. Your back pedaling. >> >> You are partly right... I don't know what percentage of CD/DVD drives >> that ship worldwide each year that support firmware upgrades. Do you >> know? >> >> But if this was a common feature of CD and DVD drives then I would >> think you would be able to look at a drive's ID data or the drive's >> printed label or the drive's PCB or the drive's chipset and determine >> who made it so you could find their web site and find the firmware >> upgrade software. >> >> I assume your company ships only drives that support firmware >> upgrades, and that is probably good, probably not necessary, but >> probably good. But just because your company ships a few million of >> the 200 million (or more) CD/DVD drives each year I'm not sure you >> are seeing a very good cross section of the products that are >> shipping worldwide. >> >> Sure, I only see a few drives each year. Most are the cheapest thing >> you can buy at the local computer store so my sample size is not very >> valid either. >> >> As someone else said here: If you are looking at the first few >> thousand of a product then don't be surprised if they support >> firmware upgrade while for the rest of the product life that feature >> does not exist. Except when selling product to a company like yours >> that wants features that may never be used, there is no need to >> continue support for a feature that will never be used. Firmware >> updating is a real good example of this - once the firmware is >> "debugged" enough to run most of the time with Windows the firmware >> flash chip can be replaced with a ROM chip on the next 10 million >> drives! >> >> Hale >> >> >> >> *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com *** >> >> >> > >
