8 Mar
2004
8 Mar
'04
10:52 p.m.
A couple years back, i remember actual IBM drives that had the glass
platters. I liked those. Most of them that I worked with were reliable and
the 2 that did crash and burn were fun to play with (see: disassembly;
hammer and butane torch), grin.
-John Boffemmyer IV
At 07:45 AM 3/9/2004, you wrote:
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Jochen Kunz wrote:
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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.