Tendo City

Well basically, are printer went down in the photo lab today ($700 to have a tech come out). So Fuji air mailed a new harddrive to us, which arrived about 5 hours later ($600 plus $100 for the harddrive.)

The lab was down all day today (0 prints processed + $250 in lost revenue).

So here's the scoop, as to the problem after eight hours of diagnostics ...

Should anyone remove the 100 M zip disk which happened to be in the zip drive in the machine, the motherboard controller won't mount the drive. And as a result all the drives are assigned a new drive number. The hot swappable hard drive must be drive 1 or it will fall off of the boot order list and the machine will not post.

So to make a long story short this incredibly stupidly designed machine will not boot unless there is a 100 m zip disk is in the drive, and someone came along and unknowingly ejected the disk, costing everyone about $1650.

So here's the dumb ass circle...
Fuji says IBM are fucking morons
Color circle hates Fuji
IBM says Fuji's the dumb ass.
And we hate everybody...

There it is, the holy triad of stupid is complete.....
I hate walmart.

Quote:Should anyone remove the 100 M zip disk which happened to be in the zip drive in the machine, the motherboard controller won't mount the drive

Wow... Is this an intentional feature, or just incredibly stupid design?

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