Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:01:11 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> To: Yeasah Pell <yeasah@apocalypse.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Saving a partially rotten IBM DTLA-307030 Harddisk Message-ID: <20030107200111.GA24556@edgemaster.zombie.org> In-Reply-To: <00bf01c2b2f9$dfa77650$052010ac@gauss> References: <20030102205040.GC22880@Deadcell.ant> <m3ptrft8n5.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <20030103002730.GB729@Deadcell.ant> <200301022132.35297.duhring@charter.net> <3E152CAF.6000107@barryp.org> <00bf01c2b2f9$dfa77650$052010ac@gauss>
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:29:38AM -0500, Yeasah Pell wrote:
> I returned a drive, it took a couple weeks to get it back, and the
> replacement had a "used part" sticker on it. It failed within a month.
> I foolishly returned the drive again, this time including a plea to
> replace the drive with another model that doesn't fail, but I just got
> the same thing back again, 2 weeks later. Now it rots in a drawer.
I went through four of them like this. I'm still using the fourth one,
until it explodes. All of them are "servicable used parts", so it means
some other sucker returned them and they're just redistributing them after
"fixing" them.
My first drive lasted about a year. My second drive lasted about 6 months.
My third drive lasted lasted a few weeks. Along with the return of the
third drive, I included
http://www.zombie.org/ibm.txt
with the drive. I also managed to get an 'Ask Slashdot' story posted which
asked people if they were having problems with this series of drive. To
this day, I still get e-mail from people complaining about these IBM
drives.
(And yes, I apologize for contributing to something that is pretty far
offtopic by now.)
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