Re: IBM Hard-drive Lawsuit

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

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Chuck
there is a  two digit country  code  in the  serial number i.e
model-10-serial#, were 10 is the position of the manufacture country.
I  know  10 is USA but  I do not know the rest of the table. Perhaps  there
is someone on the list who might know it or  the location of  such a table.

         Glenn

At 07:48 AM 10/24/2001 -0500, Chuck Lewis wrote:
>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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