In , on 12/02/2005 
   at 12:47 PM, Kris Steenhaut  said:

Kris

>>     It is a Seagate / IBM 73GB SCSI drive.
>>
>>HBA ID LUN VENDOR   PRODUCT          REV  SYNC WIDE INI13  CYL/ HD/SEC ---
>>-- --- -------  ---------------- ---  ---- ---- ----- ------------
>> 0  13  0  IBM-ESXS SW373405LW    !# B243 40.0  16   82h  1024/255/63
>>
>The (very) surprising part is the "IBM" vendor thing. We know
IBM ceased 
>fabricating harddisks since the 7500 rpm era (already 4 years ago) and 
>even before all so called IBM harddisks were made by Hitachi. And as a 
>consequence HD with an IBM sticker on it diverted into bad quality HD 
>and got rightly bad a reputation.


>Further on, I'm not aware of any deal between IBM and Seagate in that 
>respect. So, alas, it looks like someone has tweaked an Hitachi HD into 
>a Seagate (or the other way around) in order to have you believed it's 
>an "IBM" harddisk.

     I am, in a very round about way.  After IBM sold off their drive
manufacturing capabilities, and wanted good hard drives in their
mini-computers, they contracted with Seagate to build them and provided
the IBM Bios's to Seagate for the drives.

>Bottom line: if you see an IBM sticker on a HD, even do't think about it.

     No IBM sticker on the drive.  It was never represented
as such.

     Thanks

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