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Fujitsu - MPG and MPF series hard drives - what was the result ???



 
 
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Old August 20th 04, 09:56 PM
no-name
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Default 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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Old August 21st 04, 08:09 AM
Odie Ferrous
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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
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Old August 21st 04, 04:02 PM
J. Clarke
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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.

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(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
 




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