On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:12:37AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Sune Kristensen wrote:
As far as I remember it was only the 75GXP and maybe the 60GXP that had the error, and got the nick "Deathstar".
Absolutely correct. 60GXP was more trouble than previous IBM drives, but 75GXP was even worse. My first 75GXP lasted about 2 months. Its exact replacement went well over a year. That was replaced under warranty with a Hitachi that is approaching a year old now (or is that two?).
At the time, I heard that part of the problem was that IBM had realised that they had a quality problem on the drives, and had recalled them, but that a lot of dealers had realised that because of some clause in the IBM contract, they got a better deal selling the suspect stock to customers then dealing with the returns (getting a subsequent payment from IBM for doing this) than by sending the drives back to IBM in the first place. Of course, this could be rubbish. -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2