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Fujitsu - MPG and MPF series hard drives - what was the result ???
I remember reading the debacle about some Fujitsu hard drives -
( a faulty controller chip from Cirrus Logic wasn't it ? ) now, a friend has turned up a pair of Fujitsu's that have been "faulty or dead" for as long as she can remember trying them in a PC - the auto check in the BIOS simply shows each as cylinders/heads/sectors as ZERO each which seems to confirm the "faulty or dead" description given that Fujitsu replaced - or compensated for - a lot of these drives, is it worth contacting Fujitsu or is it far too late to bother ? specifically - this is in Britain :-) the hard drives in question a MPG3204AT - made 2001-Feb MPF3102AH - made 2000-Oct thanks for reading :-) |
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no-name wrote:
I remember reading the debacle about some Fujitsu hard drives - ( a faulty controller chip from Cirrus Logic wasn't it ? ) now, a friend has turned up a pair of Fujitsu's that have been "faulty or dead" for as long as she can remember trying them in a PC - the auto check in the BIOS simply shows each as cylinders/heads/sectors as ZERO each which seems to confirm the "faulty or dead" description given that Fujitsu replaced - or compensated for - a lot of these drives, is it worth contacting Fujitsu or is it far too late to bother ? specifically - this is in Britain :-) the hard drives in question a MPG3204AT - made 2001-Feb MPF3102AH - made 2000-Oct thanks for reading :-) Don't bother - unless you were a Dell who bought 10s of thousands of these things you don't stand a chance. If you need the data back, though, I will be able to manage it for you. If you don't need the drives, I'll give you some beer / wine money for them. Odie -- RetroData Data Recovery Experts www.retrodata.co.uk |
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no-name wrote:
I remember reading the debacle about some Fujitsu hard drives - ( a faulty controller chip from Cirrus Logic wasn't it ? ) now, a friend has turned up a pair of Fujitsu's that have been "faulty or dead" for as long as she can remember trying them in a PC - the auto check in the BIOS simply shows each as cylinders/heads/sectors as ZERO each which seems to confirm the "faulty or dead" description given that Fujitsu replaced - or compensated for - a lot of these drives, is it worth contacting Fujitsu or is it far too late to bother ? specifically - this is in Britain :-) the hard drives in question a MPG3204AT - made 2001-Feb MPF3102AH - made 2000-Oct thanks for reading :-) In the US a class-action suit was brought and Fujitsu settled--compensation is $45/drive plus up to $1200 for data recovery. Covered models have "a model number composed of or starting with the sequence MPF3102AH, MPF3153AH, MPF3204AH, MPG3102, MPG3153, MPG3204, MPG3307, or MPG3409" and details are at http://www.hddclassactionsettlement.com/. Unfortunately that settlement applies only to drives that were bought in the US by "certain individuals and entities residing, domiciled or located in the United States" and I don't think a similar suit has been brought in the UK. -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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