Fujitsu - MPG and MPF series hard drives - what was the re..

[no-name]

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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 are:

MPG3204AT - made 2001-Feb
MPF3102AH - made 2000-Oct

thanks for reading

 

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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 are:
>
> 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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Data Recovery Experts
www.retrodata.co.uk

 

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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 are:
>
> 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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