GEEEEEEEEEEZE!

From: Steven N. Hirsch <shirsch_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Tue Mar 9 06:45:12 2004

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:46:59 -0500
> "J.C. Wren" <jcwren_at_jcwren.com> wrote:
>
> > I do know that until the 60/75GXP problem, I'd
> > have zero hesitations about buying IBM drives, and had Deskstars in a
> > number of systems at work. They're as good or better than Maxtor, and
> >
> > there's no comparing them to WD drives
> I have _lots_ of broken IBM 066? drives and all IBM DFHS drives I came
> acros have sticky heads.

Have you contacted Hitachi about the DFHS models? At one point IBM
produced a firmware upgrade to boost startup torque on the DFHS and
similar models. It was a known problem, IIRC.

Steve
Received on Tue Mar 09 2004 - 06:45:12 GMT