Miniscribe "bricks" (was Re: Common Maxtor MFM drive failure mode -- any ideas?)

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sun Oct 25 01:56:40 CDT 2015


    > From: Eric Smith

    > One possible lesson to be learned: always pay cash when buying
    > materials for inventory fraud.

Not to mention 'don't fire people who've been helping you commit fraud' (the
whole thing unravelled when they 'down-sized' some people in the shipping
department who'd been helping with the fraud - they promptly reported it).


A couple of other URL's someone sent me:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniScribe
  https://blog.gillware.com/data-recovery-case/the-first-hard-drive-to-brick

Thanks!

	Noel


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