Re: IBM Harddrive Lawsuit

Jim,

I got mine pretty close to that April date, maybe May...

How/who can I get hold of to find out if they should be replaced BEFORE they are
put in and fail ?

Chuck

Jim.Nelson@RCIS-NET.COM wrote:

> 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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