In message <19991008143404.A17749@pyy.jmp.fi>, Jukka Marin writes:
>If those guys rock, then why do they produce bad hard drives in the first
>place?

Same reason everyone else does; quality control is not a perfect science
yet.

I'm actually planning to try to contact someone at Seagate; I have a couple
of 3-month-old drives that were in a computer totaled by a shipping company,
and I want to see if they can repair them.  I can't claim warranty repair
on them without feeling like a Microsoft sales rep, but it'd be great if they
could be repaired at all.

-s