#Length of Video Clip
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Charles,
If a program to measure sustained transfer rate to NewTek's satisfaction,
exists for the Amiga and could be distributed, then NewTek might be able to get
out of the drive certification business (which must be a pain in the butt).
Just have to say, " if it can't pass this test run, it can't run the Flyer…."
BTW, does NewTek keep an updated list of certified drives available on the BBS
or on a taped message so that the staff doesn't have to be bugged by
whats-the-latest-list-of-drives info requests?
wmc – via Autopilot!
PMFJI –
Newtek tech suppport indicated that they would be releasing a program that
would do just that. They will be providing it to dealers, who are expected
to use it to certify drives as well as make it available to customers.
At present, Partners Plus dealers get fax's as each drive is added. I've
posted the ones I know about along with the Flyer Info and Flyer notes
documents.
Hank
Videology, Inc Where you get all the P.O.M.P. under all
circumstances.
The largest problem with the distribution of a program to test drive speed is
in the case of non-working drives. As even approved models can go through
changes in firmware or default setup that make them not work, it would be very
easy to buy a drive that is supposed to work, test it and find out it doesn't
work, and not be able to return it to whoever you bought it from (this
scenario would follow for dealers/distributers as well, they would need a
different customer for flyer drives they bought that didn't work). Ideally
(from an end user recieving working drives standpoint) either NewTek continues
to sell drives, Manufacturers ID drives that will work with the flyer (i.e.
flyer compatible sticker), or someone high up in the distribution chain works
with manufacturers to provide tested drives to their customers. Their may be a
way for individual dealers to handle this problem, but in the small volumes
each dealer will be ordering, I currently do not see how.
Charles Steinkuehler