On Thursday 06 February 2003 07:59 pm, you wrote: > I got a PCI card from OWC. An ACARD ATA 66. It says it will work in any > mac with a PCI bus. OWC says it will work with OS-X. > > (Machine: beige 266 rev-0-rom) > > Nada. Nuttin. System Profiler sees the card, id's it as a SCSI card. It > doesn't see any hard drive I hang on it, in any configuration (master, > slave, CS), on either of the connectors (IDE1 or IDE2).
I am not surprised you got bum hardware from OWC. OWC is a clip joint, pure and simple. I just got finished tangling with those clowns. The first time I bought from them, they sold me a 128MB stick of 100MHz RAM which turned out to be a 64MB. It was not a high-density stick...it was single-sided. I got an RMA from them, sent it back, and they sent me back email saying "the DIMM is fine." OK, fool me once, shame on you. They did refund me the money after I threatened to go to VISA about it. Next, I bought a DVD-ROM from them (Matsushta Kotobuki) and realized it was not the DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo drive I thought it was when I ordered it. Immediately I sent an email back...the realization came about an hour after I ordered it. The next day, my husband called them and confirmed that, yes, the order had not been processed and that it was pulled from the queue before submission to VISA. However, three days later, my card was charged for the drive and the drive was sent. I only found out about this when the drive arrived at my house. Fool me twice, shame on me. (I was stupid for not reading the description of the drive more than cursorily but that's beside the point.) Basically they got the order, then the cancellation request, but then decided to charge and ship and see if the shipment "stuck." This is an old boiler room trick. I was able to get an RMA number again, and ship it back to OWC. However, they only refunded me the money on the actual item sans shipping. By rights, the jerks should have refunded me shipping charges plus what it cost me to send the item back via UPS Ground. But they didn't. I have a claim in to VISA because initially I thought that perhaps they had charged me a restocking fee on the drive. However, yeah, they basically refunded me purchase price only. Still, I don't EVER want to deal with those mofos again. Not ever. It's a shame...there aren't many companies left that deal with used/refurbed/working pull/surplus Mac goodies. There are tons that are out there selling PC hardware like that, but OWC is one of the only places to go. That and MacResQ and Small Dog. Too bad OWC doesn't seem to have ethics. Never again. [/flame] -.\\<-H- -- Michelle Klein-Hass Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273 Spam me and you pay! I'm in California! http://www.spamlaws.com/state/ca1.html Brought to you by Linux, KDE and KMail...try it, you'll like it! -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
