I pulled my old drive out last year. Put it in a laptop and ran IBM's Drive Fitness Test (DFT) and called IBM with the error codes. 3 year warranty on the drive. They issued a RMA for me and a couple of weeks later (or maybe less... can't quite remember now) I had a spankin' new drive in my empeg.

Rene
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12 gig empeg Mark II, SN: 080000101
30 gig RioCar SN: 30103114
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