Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[David SMITH <dave.smith@xxxxxx>]

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.

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