[rescue] IBM hard disk (was: can't get support...)

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:15:50PM -0700, Michael Hansen wrote:
> no for an answer. They sent him a new drive:
> exactly the same model, with the same revison
> number. (smacks forehead) Wait, that makes
> perfect sense - Dell needed to get rid of their
> defective inventory, and this one might not
> fail until his warranty has expired.

It's worse than that, actually: most likely the system was qualified
with that exact drive, so they sent him the same one, on purpose.

./patrick