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Alex Zbyslaw writes:

>  IBM discovered this to their cost when one of their Deskstar
>  models turned out to be scrap disguised as a disk, and got a
>  Class action lawsuit in return.  Then they sold the Deskstar line
>  to Hitachi :-)

	Did they only sell the Deskstar line?  I heard it was the
entire disk drive operation, and I have had excellent results with
their SCSI products.


				Robert Huff