Hi,

I do not know for this or other reason, but IBM has closed the mentioned
plant some times ago. And as info for HDD reliability: I had a 40GB Maxtor
HDD, which crashed very nasty: bad sectors, and a total mix up of an ext3
filesystem, so practically no way to recover the data. However, I did not
want to dump the drive so made a short look. Maxtor offers on their
website a HDD repair program. I downloaded and ran it, and it cleaned up
the drive perfectly. Since there (6 months) the drive runs without any
problem (incl. badtracks). Misterious, eh?

Regards,
Imre

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Philip Pemberton [mailto:philpem@dsl.pipex.com]
>
> >The 75GXPs? I've got one of those in a fileserver. Update the
> >firmware (there's a copy of the flash upgrader on IBM's
> >website) and they're fine. I've also got a 35GXP which seems
> >OK, too. The drive in my 386 is a 4GB Seagate U4 - 1999 fab
> >date, still working fine.
>
> 75 and 60GXP.  The problem was isolated to drives made in one particular
> plant (Hungary IIRC) and was down to build defect, so a firmware update is
> not likely to help any dead drives.  Some peoples drives have lasted well
> with no problems, but a huge number of them did not.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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