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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 > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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