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Because I use it. As well as my 1050 drive. I have the cable going from the 130xe to an SIO hub and the SDrive Max, 1050, and Fujinet are all plugged into the chain. Seems normal to me. Why would I NOT have my SDrive Max connected to my computer? I just got the Fujinet. Are you saying I should ditch the SDrive Max and don’t use it anymore?

Has anyone else noticed that the Fujinet won’t boot if there’s an SDrive Max on the SIO bus if it is turned off? I have to power up the SDrive Max and the. Set D1: to “empty” for the Fujinet to boot up. If the SDrive Max is powered down then Fujinet freezes. My physical 1050 can remain on the SIO bus powered down without issue.

Nope.

Maybe you thought it was just a hobby because of all the unprofessional comments and insults. And yes Lotharek, I can read… 🤨

Huh? It’s a full on company. With a team, in a nice building, with $100,000.00’s worth of manufacturing equipment. https://smd.lotharek.pl/en/about And regardless, even if you are a hobbyist and build and sell a product on eBay (which I have done many times) and you offer a warranty, and your device fails from normal use within that warranty. You should honor the warranty. you should not void it and tell the costumer he failed to scour through his website looking for clues on how he might be able to repair it himself. If you want to take that route then you should at least respond to their initial email of them describing the problem and send them a link to your troubleshooting page instead of a link to an RMA form and then upon rescinding the item and repairing it tell the customer “you failed to follow instructions”. * Reminds me of when Apple said “your holding it wrong” when their iPhones had a faulty antenna 😂

I appreciated him dealing with the shipping issues and said I would pay those fees. He told me I could hold off and there would be no charges on that from the post office. That didn’t pan out and apparently there were indeed fees (which I would gladly have paid). Everything derailed (dismissing all of the accusations) when he sent me ADDITIONAL charges for the reflashing of the firmware while the device was under warranty. At that point the costs were equal to the price of buying a new device.

* Warranty void if pirated software bricks your device.

🤦‍♂️

He should just fix his bug then instead of blaming the users and making them have to deal with having to re-flash their devices or honor his warranties when you ship them back for repair if you didn’t get the memo… Has anyone shipped theirs back to him to have re flashed and he did it under warranty ?

Well I wasn’t so lucky. For me he said I didn’t follow instructions, buy his flash updater and fix it myself and demanded I pay him another $45.00 for the “repair” plus shipping to get my device back. I’m looking for US alternatives…

More like Accusations, voiding warranties and holding device hostage. Just sayin’ Only way to really find out is to be able to consistently repeat the issue using the exact same test cases. If your US blows up while playing Stunt Car Racer EVERY time then probly not a coincidence… And you can thank Geoff Crammond for finding the suspect 😆

Mine was an external on ID 1 and 2 so I could reboot into internal. But yeah you could.

Thanks for the offer. It’s ok. The internal drive works in the STacy just on its last leg. I also have an HS204 that works but you have to manually twist the stepper motor at first to get it to spin up. I am looking into a way to get BlueSCSI to work with the ST and be done with the UltraSatan (and sadly Lotharek).

Ya well he’s now the proud owner of my Ultrasatan that I bought for him. Hope he makes a double profit off it.

Yeah I’m sure the whole issue was a communication problem. He thought I was attacking him and was on the defense. He came in swinging right out of the gate and I was continuously getting more and more disgruntled and frustrated as he continued to make false accusations about me. I feel that things might have been different if he: • understood I was not accusing him of wrongdoing about shipping. • understood I was happy to pay the customs fees and appreciated him dealing with the hassle. • understood I purchased a pre-populated SD card. • understood I did try to find troubleshooting information on his FAQ page. • understood product was within warranty period. Who knows… as tuf said “it’s single side of the story unless the other side chimes in”

LOL - I actually have a good time talking to him.. he's feisty but as long as I slow down and let him drive its "okay"....

Welp that’s what he told me while trying to push blame on me AGAIN. Blame blame blame. And I’m the one disrespecting him apparently. What an 🤬. I’m so pissed off about this sorry. He basically STOLE my device from me. I would have had to pay at minimum $90.00 plus shipping USA to get my device back from him😖😤

I don’t know. It was definitely his own design on a white PCB. It’s pretty much the only one available for purchase out there. It worked well during the 8 months I had it until it just started fading and then quit completely. Died a slow death. I didn’t play many many games on it so I find the pirated software theory fishy…

My feelings exactly. Saying it is my fault for not realizing that somewhere in his website under a section about something completely different (files) there might be a troubleshooting flow chart that might give me some clues as to what might be wrong. and to expect that I should own all of the additional hardware and software required to connect to the main logic board and re program the firmware is just…. 🤦‍♂️ To also hold my device hostage now and stop communicating seems like it would be unlawful as well.

I would have done the same if I would have known. Unfortunately the only advice I received from him when asking how to fix it was a link to his RMA form.

I guess there’s a “customer is always wrong” policy in Poland.

Yes pirate ship is good. The issue was they don’t handle RMA / Business international and force an insurance value on the item. I was with support on it for an hour. They credited me $40.00 (I was just never able to get lotharek to understand and stop accusing me of not following directions 😂 🤦‍♂️).

I tried to post the exchanges as much as i could find in my email trail I want to be fully transparent. but it went on and on from september to now. There was definitely a communication breakdown. His first exchanges right out of the gate were being standoffish and accusatory. I tried to be cordial and i told him i was not blaming him for anything and just wanted to make things right. I have never had an issue with him either and have purchased multiple items from him over several years. it was mind boggling to me how everything went and now i do not feel like purchasing anything from him again. Another example of not being able to get through to him that i did follow instructions: He was IMPOSSIBLE to work with.... Anyway.... water under the bridge as they say...

Agreed. to me it sure seems like buggy hardware / firmware. how could a consumers sd card damage the devices firmware regardless if it were the venders pre populated card or not. How could this be my fault!? And then to say its my fault for not finding his troubleshooting guide (that are hard to find in the first place), and buying more equipment from him to be able to flash the device to repair it.. ridiculous.

I take the blame for not using standard postal service. And I told him i would pay the $40 fee... i tried to tell him consistently but he repeatedly kept saying i didn't follow his RMA instructions which was very frustrating. The main issue I have here is he did not honor my warranty and then tacked on an additional $40.00 fee to refresh the device which took him literally one minute. so $40 customs fee plus $25.00 shipping. plus $40.00 service fee plus shipping back to me. I would never have even returned the device in the first place if he wasn't going to honor the warranty. I do not see how the device quitting working on me using the card provided by him could in any way be my fault and void th warranty. in the end I payed him to own my device. At least refund me some of the cost for the device.