RE: IBM Harddrive Lawsuit

Late on this one - was out of town...

I'm in the process of ordering disk, and asked if I should be concerned
about the bad drives.  Here is part of the reply from our VAR:

Hi Jim,
I spoke with your sales rep and contacted IBM Partnerline to confirm the
status on the 10K RPM disk drives. IBM definitely had problems with these
drives. Apparently there was some sort of design flaw that was causing a
higher than normal failure rate. IBM has done 2 things
1) They redesigned the disks and have been shipping this new design for 2
months. Any new disk orders would ship with the newly designed drives.
.....

Chuck, when did you order/receive the disks with the April date?

Sounds like I may need to be asking a few more questions?

Thanks, JN

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 7:48 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: IBM Harddrive Lawsuit


Bill wrote:

<I believe the only solution is to replace the drives.  My gut feel is that
they
are not going to fix this through software.>

That's what I was wondering, but there has been NO noise on this for a month
so I
wasn't sure !

<I think you can feel pretty secure if the drives were NOT manufactured in
Hungary.>

ARGHHH ! So if my boxes say "Contains Merchandise from the following
countries:
Italy, Hungary" (date of 11 April 2001) I could have problems ?

Chuck

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