On 12/02/05 06:47 am Kris Steenhaut tossed the following ingredients 
into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

>  >     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.
> 
> Now, if we look here:
> 
> http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/scsi/st373405lw.html
> 
> we can see the right type number is ST-373405lw for that type of Seagate
> harddisks.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Bottom line: if you see an IBM sticker on a HD, even do't think about it.

But in fact I see many drives around with IBM, Compaq or HP logos and 
part numbers that also have clearly recognizable Seagate model numbers, 
even if the name "Seagate" nowhere appears.

The point is that Seagate drives have such an outstanding reputation 
that other manufacturers relabel them for use in their own machines -- 
although perhaps with custom firmware, which may for all I know include 
a different model number internally.

-=-
Alan


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