Re: IBM Desktar disk problem?

[Iain Thomas]

Thunder wrote:
>On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Timo Jantunen wrote:
>> There is a disk image for Linux, too, on the same page:
>> http://www.geocities.com/dtla_update/dtlaupdt.tar.gz
>I've talked to IBM about this. They say they don't have it on their
>website because some people might think they need it and trash their hard
>disks because they can't upgrade and are too lazy to read the README.

Hmm...

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/manager.wss?rs=0&rt=0&org=psg&doc=MIGR-39082
"Aptiva / IntelliStation / NetVista / PC300 / PC300GL / PC300PL - Why
should you use the firmware update for IBM DeskStar hard disk drives?"

and

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/manager.wss?rs=0&rt=0&org=psg&doc=MIGR-38933
"IBM IntelliStation / NetVista / PC300 / PC300GL / PC300PL - PZ2Z16US -
IBM DeskStar hard disk drive firmware update"

and

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/manager.wss?rs=0&rt=0&org=psg&doc=MIGR-42215
"NetVista 2179, 2284, 6643, 6832, 6833 - PZ2Z18US - IBM DeskStar hard disk
drive firmware update"

Left hand, heard of Right hand? Although I don't know how useful these are
if you don't have an IBM computer...

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