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                                        From:      Forbes Baylis
                                                   BAYLIS FH@A1@UKA
                                        Dept:      GW IT Infrastructure
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TO:  Markus Baeurle <emw4maba@gp.fh       ( Markus Baeurle <emw4maba@gp.fht-esslingen.de>@RELAY )

Subject: Re: Cumana SCSI II Card

  Hello Marcus,


  > Seems to be common for them. I have heard of several people for which
  > Cumana has been unhelpful, among them two German users whose cards didn't
  > work any more after they had flashed V2.01. Cumana said (through their
  > German representative ESH) that they could not help.
  > I have not heard of anybody who received help by EMail from Cumana since
  > they announced that they were reachable by EMail again. Is their mail
  > system still out of order?
  >
  > But write to them anyhow, urging them to withdraw the NDA for the RiscBSD
  > driver. If they don't and don't provide better support, they will damage
  > their business even further and will soon vanish completely, I'm afraid.
  > :-(


  well, I still haven't had a reply from them, but I have a contact who said
  he can forward comments to Cumana (I suppose he works there or knows
  someone who does). I for one will buy a Powertec card if they continue to
  be unhelpful :-o

  I will try to speak to someone in Cumana.

  Watch this space!

  Forbes.