Re: IBM Hard disk failures -- sold it

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, nate wrote:

> Jaye Inabnit ke6sls said:
> 
> > My question is simple:  Would the majority of users here still avoid IBM
> > drives, or was this a foul quirk of a single bad line of drives from IBM?
> > My next question would be:  What has/is IBM doing about this bad PR?
> >
> >
> 
> IBM isn't doing anything, they are in the process of selling their
> hard disk manufacturing arm to Hitachi I think. They lost something
> like $500mil on it in the past year.

its already sold ... was in the press 

c ya
alvin