8 Mar
2004
8 Mar
'04
10:45 p.m.
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Jochen Kunz wrote:
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:46:59 -0500
"J.C. Wren" <jcwren(a)jcwren.com> wrote:
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
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.