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Article #489Re: Western Digital Replacement of Defective Drives
From: Danny Willis
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 00:00
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ohlenc@ucs.orst.edu (Christopher Ohlen) writes: >I received a replacement drive which turned out to be bad. It was a model >AC31600 made *28 January 1997*!! They were still in production less than a >month ago! >It appears that WD's press release staff is ill informed or they are not being >truthful about the 31600 producting being ceased in August of 1996. Perhaps this is the situation: WD did stop manufacturing the 31600 in Aug 96, but the replacement drives that people are receiving are *remanufactured* drives, ie the same chassis that people are returning, but with new firmware (or whatever) and a new sticker date. (And hopefully recertified with a new test suite, logged for a full warranty, etc.)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 14a1b0,313591b4d45fc312 X-Google-Attributes: gid14a1b0,public X-Google-Thread: 16b814,313591b4d45fc312 X-Google-Attributes: gid16b814,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,313591b4d45fc312 X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,313591b4d45fc312 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public X-Google-Thread: fdb6e,313591b4d45fc312 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb6e,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,313591b4d45fc312 X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public X-Google-Thread: 1019d9,313591b4d45fc312 X-Google-Attributes: gid1019d9,public X-Google-Thread: 10e1c8,313591b4d45fc312 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1c8,public From: dannyw@shore.net (Danny Willis) Subject: Re: Western Digital Replacement of Defective Drives Date: 1997/03/01 Message-ID: <5f9h7h$aoh@northshore.shore.net> X-Deja-AN: 222338615 References: <33162CE9.7B61@nwj.com> <5f2o53$nun@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> <3315c9d6.66914722@news.gate.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970228192301.24146D-100000@teer11.acpub.duke.edu> <5f8r0u$4a9@news.orst.edu> Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.arch.storage,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,biz.marketplace.computers.pc-clone,fido7.hardw,fido7.hardw.pc.peripheral