From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 3 16:37:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDAC37B401 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:37:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4225543EA9 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:37:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org (krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 577E6A3891 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 01:37:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 37911757BD; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 01:37:11 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Saving a partially rotten IBM DTLA-307030 Harddisk In-Reply-To: <3E152CAF.6000107@barryp.org> (Barry Pederson's message of "Fri, 03 Jan 2003 00:24:47 -0600") References: <20030102205040.GC22880@Deadcell.ant> <20030103002730.GB729@Deadcell.ant> <200301022132.35297.duhring@charter.net> <3E152CAF.6000107@barryp.org> From: Matthias Andree Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 01:37:11 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i586-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Barry Pederson writes: > The thing I wasn't sure about was... does it get replaced with a new > drive? or just some other returned drive of the same flaky model that > they've reformatted and mapped out the bad sectors? Well... you never know, but they ship refurbished used equipment. Whatever that means. Our returned DTLA-307045 failed again after some months. I wonder if it's possible to call the IBM support and ask for a different model. I'd even take a set of used DPTA drives of same capacity. > IIRC the website where you got an online RMA only guaranteed a > refurbished drive. Can't tell right now though since the > above-mentioned URL only says warranty support is moving to Hitachi in a > few days. Huh. If that's any good... I guess I'd better buy a spare drive. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message