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to: Scott Harris
from: Russell Brooks
date: 1995-10-09 10:50:16
subject: CD ROM Drive you sent me

07-Oct-95 12:38:16, Scott Harris wrote to All

          Subject: CD ROM Drive you sent me



 SH> (from message to Drago Pajic)



 DP>> I have received your CD ROM drive which you shipped in a 'Jiffy' bag.

 DP>> You could've put a 'Fragile' sticker, at least. 



 DP>> To cut the long story short, after gluing two broken parts inside the

 DP>> drive, I still cannot use it, as it is not being seen by the driver

 DP>> software. Opening and closing the drive door makes no difference

 DP>> whatsoever. I tried another ribbon cable but that didn't help either.

 DP>> Drive light is on, permanently.



 DP>> If you cannot come up with something that will get it going, then I

 DP>> want my $65 back and you can have your CD and the drive. If you've

 DP>> got any other single speed drives left, I am prepared to take one of

 DP>> those instead (and pay $10 difference in price). 





 SH>    Just thought I'd let you ALL know that I took back the CD-Rom and 

 SH> replaced

 SH> it with another unit (at my own cost). I maybe should have packed it a 

 SH> bit

 SH> better in the first place, eh? 



 SH>    This message is just to get things straight - and to ensure you all 

 SH> that I'm

 SH> not a shonk, and it's actually OK to buy stuff from me 



OK, we can see you are trying to be "up front" but from my observations 

of this, you should not have to replace the drive if the buyer stuffed

it up himself by putting the cables on backwards 





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