[ltp] Harddrive is blowing up... I need some advice

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Aaron Mulder wrote:

> 	For what it's worth, we've used at least 10 OEM 60/7200 Hitachi
> drives (I assume this is what was meant by "IBM drives") and we've had 2
> failures -- one died within the first 24 hours, and one died a couple days
> after the laptop was dropped from a height of 3 feet or so.  We haven't
> had any unexplained "mid-life crises", and they perform pretty well.  
> Still, I guess the ratio isn't that great.  :)

A collegue had one of these in a T41 - which crashed within the month.
He attributes it to the HD/airbag thingy - which overzealously parks
the head - whenever the laptop is moved arround. (this is with WinXP)

And then there was a firmware update from IBM to fix some issues with
this HDD.

Satish