IBM Deathstar Hell
Scott Smith
scott at roadtoad.net
Mon Sep 15 21:04:34 CDT 2003
Weird, I've RMAed my personal share of IBM drives (5 or so over the
years, many were acquired dead from old jobs, heh...) and all I've ever
had to do was call them up and ask for an RMA. Didn't have to prove
anything.
Scott
Kris Bodenheimer wrote:
> I have a deathstar that develops "bad sectors" every 2 days, using
> IBM's Drive fitness utility I am on my 4th "erase and repair disk"
> which appears to be a low level formatting. The drive is under
> warranty for 3 more months, but I can't get the Drive fitness utility
> to give me an error that earns me an RMA. Anyone know how to "help"
> this drive along its slow death? BTW this will be the 10th IBM
> Deathstar to go to hell in the past 2 months. Kris
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